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It looks like the facts and the market contradict your claims about the very nature of tubes.
Tubes reflect their Neo-Victorian vintage ... they’re just not high precision parts ... Tube boosters reply that “my ears are more accurate than your instruments”, but their faith is mired in groupthink. There’s no credible A/B/X aural evidence to support the “tubes sound better” cult. Tubes were marching to the casket 40 years ago. Don’t consort with zombies.I don't think you accurately describe the opinions of tube users, and your notion that they comprise a "cult" of "zombies" is absurd. The suggestion that a preference for tubes should be substantiated by an a/b/x test is just plain silly and if tubes were marching to the casket 40 years ago, companies such as Audio Research would never have flourished.
The quality and reliability of the tubes made by those arcane foreign suppliers is a subject worthy of concern.That's silly. It's obviously of no concern to you because you don't use tubes. And it clearly is not an issue for those who do choose to use tubes.
Really? How do you account for the many high quality and rock-stable vacuum tube products now being manufactured?
vacuum tubes are not a wise choice when stable circuit performance is a serious design goal
It looks like the facts and the market contradict your claims about the very nature of tubes.