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Thursday, September 02, 2010

In a vacuum

OMG- Is that the Starlighters playing?
When's the last time you used a tube tester?
When's the last time you saw vacuum tube electronics for sale?

With real cacuum tubes!

That's right.  4 Watts for $140.00 at Woot.  Whereas today I love the smell of cordite, bourbon and cigar smoke,  I would dearly love to relive  vacuum tube smell, Canoe aftershhve, and Kathy Shinner's perfume.

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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous9/2/10, 9:04 AM

    Do they still make Canoe? It was my first aftershave, and given to me by the Mrs. Robinson of my youth.

    Casca

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  2. USMC28419/2/10, 9:10 AM

    I was stationed in GTMO in 1988 and we still used RT-505B's, which is a tube powered, back carried radio. I came home on leave for my parents 25th anniversary with a pillow case full of tubes and headed to the Rexall drugstore.

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  3. Rodger the Real King of France9/2/10, 9:29 AM

    The tubes had been surplussed, one assumes?

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  4. Rodger the Real King of France9/2/10, 9:31 AM

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  5. Anonymous9/2/10, 9:42 AM

    Rodge:

    You dated Kathy Sinner too?

    Cuzzin Rick

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  6. Rodger the Real King of France9/2/10, 10:00 AM

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  7. Anonymous9/2/10, 11:27 AM

    Russian and Chinese tubes are still available for sale. I use the Russian ones in my Marshall half-stack and Ampeg bass amp. Tube (or valve if you're a Brit) amps are still being made. Tubes just sound better. Solid state has no soul. -- 1911Man

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  8. MoFiZiX Gr4FiX9/2/10, 1:48 PM

    Was the catch phrase "Canoe Canoe?" or "Can You Canoe?" I could never figure that one out. BTW, 1911Man is right; Last I checked, according to true audiophiles, tubed mono and stereo amplifiers are still some of the most sought after and expensive units on the market today.

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  9. An ignorant dickweed9/2/10, 2:09 PM

    I also believe that vinyl sounds better than a CD. There was dept to the music on a vinyl record.

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  10. Anonymous9/2/10, 5:23 PM

    I still wear Canoe. Got a couple bottles left behind when my father passed.

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  11. Anonymous9/2/10, 6:44 PM

    My husband said he would have proposed earlier if I'd have used bourbon instead of perfume.
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  12. Flyfish9/3/10, 9:15 AM

    Tubes are the holy grail for guitarists. I currently have 3 all tube amps and 3 all tube preamps and a box full of 12AX7's, El34's etc. Sadly the most reliable supply is Sovtek. Tubes are also the holy grail for the extreme golden ears audiophiles.

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