said by novaflare :

Hell i miss the warmer sound of vinal my self. There are some highly specialized sound cards out there that add this warmness. Theres a paticular mother board that uses a cathode tube to add a warmness to the sound. Ive heard one in use and it is quite nice make most high end sound cards sound like total crap in comparison.

Personaly im suprised the record execs havent started creating vinal records to make some cash. There are still a large number of the 30+ crowd my self included who would buy records. Its funny but you can buy serious stereo equipment equiped with things like turntables and even 8 track tape decks (corse they also have cd player tape deck and cd burner and are many 1000s of dolors and are mostly aimed at people looking to make masters or remasterign of new albums.)

said by fireflier :

NO $%@&#$ WAY! That has to be a joke?

said by cableties :

Does it come with a spare? Do you have to wait for it to warm up prior to use? Man, if those caps blow...

Yeow!

Cool though. My brother rebuilt a Mcintosh tube amp and the thing would crank and blow any speakers we had. Three HUGE transformers...I painted skulls on them for him. Too bad he sold it as now they make speakers thak can handle them.

Tubes. Geeks rule!

said by Cheese :

That board? No, it's not a joke.

said by Anodyzed :

I would have sworn this was all an April Fool's day hoax, if I hadn't gone to the AOpen site:

»usa.aopen.com/Products/mb/ax4b-533tube.htm

As an old tube-tech from radio years ago, I don't see how this triode amp, even if its taking the output off the Cathode, isn't emitting so much RFI inside that computer case it doesn't induce voltages EVERYWHERE on every buss and on every signal cable. Tubes are RFI demons!

John