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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yogizuna who wrote (99260)	6/18/2003 3:46:06 PM
From: LowtherAcademy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Interesting stuff on the mfg'ng the tubes. There are several CD players fooling around with tubes. They are interesting, but, I tend to think it is more marketing than anything else. Ya can't make a silk purse out of sow's ear when it comes to CDs. I'm strongly entrenched in the "tube" camp, with a fisher 200B tuner, a Modulus Illlusions 3A preamp, pair of 6550/KT88 monoblocks, VPI turntable, glider cartridge, SME 309 arm. I have an audiophile CD player, but, really, even with all the tube gear to try and smooth it out, I find it irritating to listen to. It's a format that I save for the car--although I really like the 200B tuner, which is receiving CD broadcasts--must be the compression in the FM transmission that is so euphonic as to make the glaring deficiencies of the CD format non irritating. gggg. Regards, Lew