I still build the occasional valve amp for mates ... there's something quite magical about the harmonics generated in a choke loaded transformer coupled output stage that no transistor / mosfet / class D amp could ever even come close to, as most musicians will attest.I remember most of the LP's in my Grandparents home had these on the label. Listened to on an old valve Radiogram with the hum of the valves in the background.
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But did you die?
I used to ask for something to eat and the options where always fruit, after saying I don't want the inevitable answer was "Then you are not hungry" followed by the usual "People are starving in this world"
I recall my sister getting a klap alongside the earhole for offering a retort of; "Name one", following the standard parental dinner time chirp of; "there are people starving ..."
... and so it began for me
