Real spruce

[Gordon Wilson]

On Tue, 6 Jun 1995 JHarvey440@aol.com wrote:

> [harvey said...]
> They do have merits, although they will be in the "solid-state versus vacuum
> tube"
> argument stage forever. Or, until there is only one option to discuss,
> whichever occurs first.
>
> [birkett said...]
> Laminated sbs are not actually the "solid-state version of real spruce".
>
> [end of sayings...]
>
> Bad analogy on my part, or certainly the wrong choice of word chaining. I
> didn't mean to imply that sandwich boards were the solid state version of
> real spruce; only that the -argument- about the two would likely continue to
> thrive in much the same way that audiophiles and guitar players discuss the
> merits/deficiencies of solid state versus tube amplifiers.
>
> BTW, what goes round comes round. There was a time that young folks thought
> vacuum tubes were a new invention. Now that this is no longer true, I heard
> the other day that most vacuum tubes were currently being made in Russia ...?
>
> -Jim Harvey
>
>
>
True!   The vacuum tube brand-name is SovTek....need some?