Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] M8 - a reversal of viewpoint
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Thu Mar 15 20:51:36 2007
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2007-03-15-22:34:59 Brian Reid:
> It reminds me of the box that Bob Carver built a generation ago that you 
> could connect to your solid state amplifier to make it sound like a vacuum 
> tube amplifier. It added very carefully measured distortion.

Aaah, sez Bob.  I still like the sound of actual thermionic valves.

(Even though my current amps work by pulse-width-modulating the power
supply with only an inductor between their TI-Equibit-controlled output
transistors and the speaker cables.  But I use a toobed phono preamp,
whose output gets converted by an A/D before getting fed to the digital
madness, and vinyl *still* sounds lots better than CDs.  Go figure.)
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