Raul, Did you read my post from 3 PM today? In that post, I acknowledged that solid state devices can be put to good use in audio. Yes, the quote from the IEEE is an old one; I may even have posted it once before. When I come down adamantly on the other side, it is mainly because your attitudes are so infuriating, and I feel the need to be as dogmatic as you, only on the other side of the argument. There may be people who read this crap and take it seriously, and I don't want anyone going off with a bad impression of tubes per se. Yes, for sure, I use a balanced differential hybrid cascode at the input to my phono stage, using the very same bipolar transistor that you use, or used to use, in your phonolinepreamp, as the bottom half of the cascode. The MAT02. It is very quiet indeed, but the main advantage is tremendous high gain. (The MAT02 has a transconductance of about 500 with only 10mA of current. No tube can do that.) Because the gain is so high, I can anyway maximize signal to noise by keeping the volume control around 8 or 9 o'clock, where I even have enough gain for the Ortofon MC2000. But keep in mind, the top half of the cascode, and every active device downstream, is tubes.
Like I also said above, if you want to lend me a phonolinepreamp, I would be pleased to audition it. If you would just stop being a butthead about tubes, we could have other serious discussions.
By the way, please tell me about some of the revolutionary new transistors that are so radically different from what came before. FETs and MOSFETs are no longer brand new.
Like I also said above, if you want to lend me a phonolinepreamp, I would be pleased to audition it. If you would just stop being a butthead about tubes, we could have other serious discussions.
By the way, please tell me about some of the revolutionary new transistors that are so radically different from what came before. FETs and MOSFETs are no longer brand new.