AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors?

@teo_audio I've come to liken it to comparing high-end glass for lenses. Zeiss, Leica, or a simple prism from grade school show you what happens when turbulence and time shift occur with light - prismatic effects, halo, chromatic aberrations. Electricity moving through materials (as wave or particle) subject to the same issues. Hence why we call it "colorations" to sound. My $0.02.

I was wondering why the cosina lenses I found at VV (value village) on the ’wall of shame’ (bags of stuff, priced) had such value, on line. then I looked closer. bubbles. likened to Leica. (waiter! take this old stuff away! bring me some fresh wine!)

Then the explanation to people that it’s not about the bubbles themselves.. but how they formed, why they formed. Boutique, or pinnacles.. can be like that.....

Yes thats especially similar with NOS tubes. Somehow people accept tubes work on this principle, but not cables, resistors, caps...all are nothing but materials which energy flows though, coloring the behavior and result. But I guess some people feel the rain, while others just get wet.

Where, knock on wood, the haters have yet to arrive. To speak, and share, without receiving undue abuse.

Even the word tantalum suggests one may reach for something but never grasp it.

If we combine Nobium and Tantalum, maybe we get straight to a product called Humerus?
(Which would be a great name for a tonearm.)

Is this supposed to be the modern rewriting of an odyssey, from the perspective of the audiophile?

Just not with a pen