It's one thing Korg and Behringer putting valves/tubes into everything they make (in Korg's case, complete with little orange LEDs to make it look like they're glowing). Now radio manufacturers are putting fake valves into cheap 'nostalgia' radios like this one and this one. If only someone was doing something really cool with them...
9/18/2005
When did valves suddenly get so mainstream?
It's one thing Korg and Behringer putting valves/tubes into everything they make (in Korg's case, complete with little orange LEDs to make it look like they're glowing). Now radio manufacturers are putting fake valves into cheap 'nostalgia' radios like this one and this one. If only someone was doing something really cool with them...
"If only someone was doing something really cool with them..."
ReplyDeleteI dunno, but i thaught metasonix http://www.metasonix.com was doing cool shit with tubes...
and dave wright at http://www.carrionsound.com
ok, I'll grant that those spice bottles with hair rollers in them sort of look like tubes, but I want to know WTF that black thing is. It looks like it came from an enema kit.
ReplyDeletehow utterly sad
ReplyDeletei wonder if 5 1/4 floppy disk drives will make a comeback in 2020
none of these pages even say that those "vacuum tubes" are fake, lol i imagine the poor misled customer showing his audiophile friend his new kick ass tube-radio, complete with transistor-sound and cardboard speaker-sound
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