Yep, isn't it ironic that you can still purchase tubes for a 1950s tube amplifier, yet you can't get some transistors for something built in 1980? Progress... Most of the tubes I buy are from the former eastern bloc countries. I wonder if the U.S. military still uses tubes for their "hardened" equipment? The amp that I use for my high frequency horns is a single ended triode using a 300B Western Electric tube designed in 1933 (!), and has a thunderous five watts output. But with my Altec horns, with their 106db/watt efficiency, they will bleed my ears before they need even a fraction of that 5 watts. I used to work for Altec Lansing as a Test Engineer when they were in Anaheim, and I had a great time there. A piece of history.

Oh, the Mexico thing.....well, seems I was posting copywrighted material here to demonstrate the effects of various bit-depths and dither, and their audibility. So Outlaw chased me, and my mule Josie all the way down to Tijuana and put me in the slammer......virtually, of course! I needed a pitcher of non-virtual margaritas (the official Outlaw Saloon beverage) to recover from that one!!

P.S. Have you ever ridden Route 66 for any distance on your bike? I've made it from L.A. to New Mexico but ran out of time......It's really beautiful from the California border to Kingman, AZ.



[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited February 16, 2003).]