[BC] tube sound (tube transmitters)

[Bailey, Scott]

Well Willie,
   Some folks are just stuck in the past. We, as the masses, do not
listen to tube type radios any more and haven't for a many number of
years. So why bother transmitting with a tube rig? Oh don't get me
wrong, I love the glow of a 4-400A, but it's days in commercial radio
are gone, with the exception of a few small station owners that flat
refuse to let it go, scared of newer technology. 

Scott 



Willie responded -
 >I can't see how an old transmitter can actually sound better than a
modern
 >one. That's interesting!

I think it is a subjective thing, sort of like folks who still prefer 
records or carts to CD's. There is a warmth
and coloring to the audio that modern digital equipment doesn't have, 
because it generally is flat and clean.

We use to prefer the sound of our old 1942 RCA 1K over the 1950 BTA5F.
When 
we really wanted to enjoy
the sound of the station we would switch to the 1K for "testing" during
the 
evening hours. That was the
transmitters undoing as it was on the air when we took a direct
lightning 
hit. Replaced with an MW-5A.
Just not the same at all.

Randy Shaffer
Harrisburg, PA

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