what makes vacuum tubes the better choice for some application (most notably an amp for music) over more modern options?
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Sorta another way of looking at this. Our world when you dig into it is near infinite complexity. As we attempt to approximate the world as precisely as possible, we end up smoothing over edges that aren’t really smooth. Making things too perfect, like a planned community where all the houses fit together too well. The solution often isn’t trying to make something that approximates better and better until the conscious mind can’t tell the difference, but rather, to let go and let some of the innefficiencies and complexities from a natural system leak into it. The Tube’s have a degree of randomness to them not planned by a computer but by physics which take input from everything in the world around them, and I think these add the complexity our brain secretly craves.
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