Hype, Hyperbole and high price!

Danvignau wrote,

"Let’s us also not forget that the reason we have such great tubes/valves-for-the-aficionado, is that the USSR was so far behind us in electronics that they perfected their tubes for use in MIG radar. That is why tubes come from Russia and China.

TRIVIA: When turning and firing their cannons, MIG pilots had to compensate for the gravitational forces on the stretching elements in the tube radar."

For voice communication tubes are the cat’s meow. It actually wasn’t until the late ’80s that the pilot to controller radios in all the FAA centers were converted over from tube electronics to solid state since there was an availability issue. Unfortunately the advantages of Russian amd Chinese tubes don’t actually crossover to high end tube electronics you know do to the superiority of American and British NOS tubes. I will give the Russians props for using tubes in fighter aircraft, which employed tubes for the communication section, too, all the way up to the Mig-31, as tubes are certainly superior to solid state when it comes to withstanding high over pressures results from nuclear explosions.

I hooked up my rca cables with the arrows pointing towards the CD player and the music played backwards. Pushed the phase button on my pre-amp and fixed the problem.

Hilarious! , the op got drove right off his own thread. 

Well, this was really fun!  What an entertaining thread.  I had to read the whole thing, I just couldn't help myself.  As well as LMAO, I did actually learn a thing or two, I think.

I used to be in the motorcycle business--odd that motorcycles came into this discussion, but we use to have a little saying that used to prove itself out time and time again as we would buy and sell motorcycles that ranged from stock & custom Harley's, custom choppers, Japanese bikes, bikes in great condition or just plain disasters and everything in between, and that was; "there's a seat for every saddle".