Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?

I just had another post removed. It is not "go figure" anymore. I have been insulted enough on these forums, while attempting to stay polite that having posts removed that come nowhere close to what I have been subjected to is making me wonder what is the point of participating anymore.


By the way, moderators, ridiculing certain disability over and over again is not cool at all. Take notice.

Tubes were a step along the way to where we are today, which is not tubes to any meaningful extent worth mentioning anywhere but circular threads on "audiophile" forums. There was no sign of tubes on today's Apple conference and Bose does not seem to use them either.

Thank God Apple and Bose are not responsible for what hi-fi is or will become.  Even the Millenials are discovering vinyl in huge numbers along with valves.  Mid-Fi is what is not happening anymore.

  Apple is a marketing company, not a hifi company.  Their guiding and driving force is now gone. Bose......I forgot they even existed to be honest.

40-year-olds have no idea, save for a few cool ones, what tubes are.

I know a heap of 20 year olds that know what tubes are. Anyone that plays a guitar does...
The music industry dwarfs the high end industry. 

Thank God Apple and Bose are not responsible for what hi-fi is or will become.

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Apparently glupson’s humor is a little too subtle for prime time.

"Bose......I forgot they even existed to be honest."

Well, many people have not. Check their sales figures, if you can. Compare them with tube equipment. I would guess you are not aware of reality these days. If you discount them as a significant company in music reproduction, it would be hard to explain it.