I heard the Box

OK. I’m glad to hear that your position on tubes has evolved

Just to make sure that my memory hasn’t become entirely unreliable, I did a quick search and came across this post:

millercarbon9,639 posts05-07-2019 2:01pm

I’ve tried a bunch over the years. Save your money. There’s differences sure but once you get past noisy/old to good/new I just don’t think the remaining differences are worth much. Especially when you can get a whole lot more improvement from something like a Synergistic Research Blue Quantum Fuse or a set of ECTs. Either of which cost about what a set of tubes will run you but you get a lot more improvement and unlike the tubes if you don’t like em you just send em back.

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I’m not saying that you didn’t believe what you stated in today’s post back in 2019. I’ll just assume you didn’t have time for the more nuanced reply you made today. I agree with your assertion that it’s best to seek out knowledgeable help when rolling tubes. Tubes have gotten expensive.

I do think that tubes offer at least as much potential improvement as other tweaks such as fuses. Tweaking is very system and listener dependent. Fuses might be the way to go in one system, tubes in another.

"Design and "time" don’t rhyme. It’s close though (both words share the long "i" sound, but the "n" and "m" are dissimilar), which is why in the world of songwriting that is considered a "lazy" rhyme (with no pejorative intent).

How ’bout "Once you go Tekton Design, your music sounds divine"? ;-)

Only the A-25 in Walnut veneer offered boxless sonics…..
I have a pair in the garage , itself…. A box

Pianos, guitars, basses are all boxes, more or less, and wooden.  A well designed box is a work of art, a cheap one not so much.  British speakers of the BBC heritage, like my graham audio boxes, are designed with the box in mind, not to silence them into submission.  Perhaps a little ‘boxy’ but musical and natural to my ears.

Now I know what to listen to tonight, Boxy Music, The Space Between, filled with batting. While My Port Is Still Beating is pretty good too.