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Re:One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube by ilyt on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:56PM (#35381920)
> What a lot of people miss when wondering why musicians still love tubes when emulations are so good now is: Tubes amps are repairable. Something goes wrong, you can fix it with soldering irons and spare parts. Many of us are sick to death of throwing out cheap microcontroller based crap

Even my 10 years old behringer junk still work, what are you buying that breaks so often than you'd consider paying 5x more vs just having a spare piece of gear ?

> (Good micro-controller based stuff is a different story, but amp emulators are not built like top of the line digital equipment.)

I mean if you buy the cheapest, sure

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Re:One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube by iainctduncan on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:02AM (#35388148)
If your behringer junk still works - you are lucky. Mine doesn't, and isn't worth repairing. Won't buy from them again.
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