ben franchuk wrote:
Tom Jennings wrote:
Tubes are fun, but they're not really any
good for anything useful (and
I don't want to hear from any audio tube nuts :-)
You are too late for that ... LONG LIVE TUBE AUDIO! ...
Amen to that. My current motherboard (AOpen AX4B-533TUBE) has a vacuum
tube audio pre-amp on it. You also can't beat tubes for high output RF
amplifiers. My Ham rig consists of a Kenwood TS520 (3 tubes) hooked to
an Ameritron 400W amplifier (4 Tubes).