SOLID-STATEARIANS are you offended by tubevores?

It's a copycat.

Toobs rool!

post a picture of a TUBE, dammit!



This is an Eimac 4CM400,000A. If you want to build a huge broadcast amplifier, get one of these.

The 400,000 in the type is the plate dissipation in watts. If this tube is 60 percent efficient like they used to be, you could put a million watts into this tube before you ran the risk of burning the tube out.

:wow:

Sadly, too many solid-state components of today don't last as long as a vacuum-tube device... :crazy:

:wow:

http://www.enjoythemusic.com/tubelust/

Check out the V8


German company Reußenzehn offers their V8 amplifier. This large amplifier looks much like an automobile engine! With eight KT88 tubes (four per channel) producing 120 watts per side. Using a custom made KT88 tube only available to Reußenzehn customers help to make this amplifier a reality. The V8 is constructed internally as a monoblock including the two separate power supply transformers. The complete housing is handmade from Thomas Reussenzehn using highly alloyed 3mm brass material. This is said to guarantee good heat dissipation while also providing vibration decoupling from the two power supply transformers by "floating" the power supply section on dampeners.

Give me solid state any fucking day. I can get a better sound with a tube emulator and a solid state Roland JC-120 than I ever can with any tube amp. Plus I don't have to worry about abusing it during load-in. Or catching on fire if the damned thing is running hot.

I've had more problems with tube amps than I care to remember.