"...Audio differences are much more subjective, and vague..."
Only if you take baby steps. When you upgrade, make a big move up, you'll be much happier.
Only if you take baby steps. When you upgrade, make a big move up, you'll be much happier.
Why are there no tube televisions anymore?
It’s funny when you come to think of it and compare video with audio. How come in the audio world discussions sometimes become intense, while there seem to be far less intense discussions in the TV & video realm?
With TV’s there’s no talk on tubes, transistors, analog, digital, vinyl, cables, power cords, heck we can even get ’audio’ fuses and -USB cables.
No one has a tube TV (while they really have a ’warmer’ image :) and very few people use a $400 power cord with their TV set. And while there are expensive HDMI cables on the market, the vast majority uses one below $50. And no one spends money on floor spacers to avoid cable vibrations.
Our eyes may even be far more sensitive than our ears ... yet discussions are far less intense. How come?
With TV’s there’s no talk on tubes, transistors, analog, digital, vinyl, cables, power cords, heck we can even get ’audio’ fuses and -USB cables.
No one has a tube TV (while they really have a ’warmer’ image :) and very few people use a $400 power cord with their TV set. And while there are expensive HDMI cables on the market, the vast majority uses one below $50. And no one spends money on floor spacers to avoid cable vibrations.
Our eyes may even be far more sensitive than our ears ... yet discussions are far less intense. How come?
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tonywinga is right. What he leaves out however is he is talking about a notable exception. More typical was all kinds of artifacts, distortions, reliability problems. My dad was at Sears, had friends in the service department, they were always coming out and it was fascinating to watch them demagnetize and adjust one thing after another. Image quality could be exceptional, and that is funny because I remember so well the clarity and color as Kirk wrestled with the Gorn in Arena. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hnBp7x2QAE Or something like that. |
Still happy with the picture from my old school Panasonic plasmas….great mix between detail and warm color saturation….IMO, more like what I see in life than what I get from the newer 4K LED television in our workout room. Why no tubes - simple, people like flat televisions. BTW, my television cables terminate before they hit the floor. |
Motion is still better on CRT sets.Not so anymore on my 120Hz OLED, no smearing or tearing at all. I guess most of you got that the topic title was not meant literally. It’s just interesting that there still are tube amplifiers around, and vinyl records, with which there are countless steps (even chemical and mechanical ones) between getting from the studio master tape (where the noise level by the way is the equivalent of 12 bit or less digital sampling) to the final reproduction of sound on your speakers that it’s even astonishing there is any sound quality left. :) While we can't imagine watching a TV set with tubes anymore. And there are so many heated debates in the audio world, on how a USB cable or a power cord improved the sound (or not), while these kind of similar discussions are far less with TV’s and image quality. That’s what struck me. |
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