I have four Mullard EL34's per color, writing to vinyl. May be a bit slow,
gets a little warm, but the harmonics and overtones are fantastic.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Paul Braun <cygnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Patrick Moore wrote:
> >>Yeah, the old single-coated CF cards have way more character than some
> >>of the newer multi-coated ones.
> >
> >
> > I have a valve one here, and the images from it are full of warmth and
> > general goodness.
> >
> > Of course, it has the problem of requiring a truck and small powerstation
> > to run it, but these are well worth it for the extra brilliance in tone,
> > saturation and reproduction.
> >
> Exactly! I hated it when they switched to these harsh, impersonal
> solid-state CF cards. Give me a tube (excuse me, valve) card any day.
>
> The really cool thing is once I started using the valve cards again, I
> bought a $1200 oxygen-free, crystalline-aligned Litz firewire cable with
> platinum-plated plugs, and all my images now have an "air" or
> "sweetness" about them that is just dazzling.... If you don't have one
> of these cables, you've just wasted a lot of money on a camera.
> --
>
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