Re: Crossover distortion and NFB

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_green.rahul.net)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:15:28 +0000 (UTC)

In article <bpEed.17820$nj.950@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote:
[...]
>Tubes? Well, they just sound great. Then there is that glow, a little
>hum, a crackle now and then. Anyway, feedback also works great with
>tubes. For some reason it wasn't done a lot in their days.

When you have to pay an hours wages for a gain of 10, you are a lot less
willing to give it up than when it costs you less than 1 seconds wages.
Tubes cost a lot to make even back then. 

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