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Originally Posted by iansmitchell
A guitar teacher of mine interned at peavey for a while. While he was there, his boss had a company come in, and because peavey does a lot of work with tubes, they asked him to analyze these new tube-replacement valves they had designed.
Anyway, a few days later, the black-suburban guys come to his office. Apparently while he was juicing these tubes, some big NSA circuit was being completely obstructed. The feds revealed the company which assigned these valves was a subsidiary of the chinese government, they confiscated the valves, and all research abstracts he had.
Now, it may have to wait for the freedom of information act to apply, but we may well one day be using something like those(which, as they were spec'd shouldn't burn out within a human lifetime of use), in out amps.
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Maybe i'm misunderstanding you, but were these the ones being shown at last years NAMM?
I remember something about black colored tube like devices that basically made a tube amp into a SS, but never needed to be replaced. Supposedly as good sounding as tubes.
He was going to set up a site, but had some trouble, and nothing seemed to come of it.
This whole topic is facinating, and makes me feel I should stock up on tubes , before they charge triple for them in the future.
I like SS amps too, but try to get the glassiness of an AC30 set up properly?
I've never heard it in a SS.
Maybe someone has a sound sample of a SS doing that for me to hear? If they do, i'll buy that amp tomorrow.