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Originally Posted by Swee_tone
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.
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Same, concept, but they've been trying since 1948 to replace tube equipment effectively with permanent technology.
These ones had a fancy name, i believe something like silicon, germanium, and halogen inductors or something along those lines. Not your normal transistor, and not your normal tube. Plus, they were military grade robust as hell stuff. I don't think uncle sam would bother shutting down something which would be at NAMM less than a decade later.
Solid state amps have a different bag of tricks. Play a fender princeton from the 80's and listen to that stereo chorus, or the balls-out grind of randalls. They're another set of quirks, for sure.