What mobo has the vaccum tube sound on it???

[THE V_I_R_U_S]

I saw a post awhile back about a mobo with vacuum tube sound. What was the brand and model number?

[Skywalker[TSG]]

what's a vaccum tube???

[Daft_Ghosty]

It's Aopen who makes them..

http://www.aopen.com/products/mb/ax4b-533Tube.htm

Skywalker.. its a clasic sounds.. something that amps for making music.. and has such a great sound.. nothing can ever copy the sound of vacuum tubes

[Skywalker[TSG]]

That looks really cool


I knew what it was i just never thought they would put it on a mobo.

[Tomteriffic]

Funny, I never thought anybody would combine two such radically opposite ends of the tecnological spectrum.

Then again, here I am in my studio, with a couple of computers, the audio from one of them is being amplified by a classic tube hi-fi amp, and over to my right is a wall of tube guitar amplifiers. But both on the same circuit board????

I'll bet keeping the EMI/RFI out of that circuit is no small trick, and the challenge of keeping the computer that it's in both cool AND quiet just got a little tougher

[MDdan]

I'll just bet that motherboard is a real turkey. Slapping a vacuum tube on there does necessarily make for good sound. A good quality vacuum tube amplifier is big bucks...how much does the motherboard sell for? Just a gimmic I'll bet, a high end sound blaser probably sounds better.

[brandon184]

A...... skeptic?

[MegalosSkylaki]

Howabout a SC connected by Toslink to a real Audio Receiver with a Toslink input and with 5.1 + DTS sound and da Speakers to back it up--Huh ?

Intergrated computing--and no worry about a tube burning out.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG

[Tomteriffic]

Quote:

Originally posted by MDdan
I'll just bet that motherboard is a real turkey. Slapping a vacuum tube on there does necessarily make for good sound. A good quality vacuum tube amplifier is big bucks...how much does the motherboard sell for? Just a gimmic I'll bet, a high end sound blaser probably sounds better.

I'm with you on this one, Dan, although, I'm presuming that this is a simple fixed-gain dual-triode circuit that just does preamp chores. That can be done pretty well cheaply enough.

BUT...this thing has got 5.1 audio onboard, and there's no way that circuit can tube-fy all 5 channels and again, the amount of electromagnetic hash flying around the inside of a computer would make it doubly difficult for this to even impart a bit of tube sweetness to just two channels without treading very close to unacceptable levels of noise and distortion.

Nawp, my guess is that it's a gimmick to appeal to audiophiles who are also computer owners.... L K!! We got T BS!!

[upinya]

I just don't understand how the tube will work, with out a heat issue. To get the full sound out of a Tube amp. Marshall, MesaBoogie,Fender Etc. You have to make them (Tubes) Glow, them babies need to be HOT to get the full tone quailty out of em'.
And you really can't tell any diff. between a solid state amp, and a tube amp. at low volume. So if this board works along the lines of a Tube amp. you'll have to have your sound CRANKED to get the full tube sound.
"THIS ONE GOES TO 11" kind of thing..