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Planned Network Maintenance in our Data Center

Hello, 🚀

[b][c=BF0000]UPDATE: This maintenance is now completed.[/c][/b]

We'd like to let you know that scheduled network maintenance in our data center will take place [b]Wednesday, November 24, at 2:00 AM EST | 07:00 UTC[/b].

This maintenance will take up to 3 hours, and [u]may cause up to 10 minutes of glitchy functionality[/u] on Similar Worlds, namely [b][u]Photo/Image Uploading[/u][/b].

We are hoping to have minimal disruption, but we want to let you know in case you wonder why SW may be down or not working properly 😊👍

Have a great day
-SW Team

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trackboy · 22-25, M

are they changing out the vacuum tubes their computer runs on?? lots of vacuum tubes to test to find the ones that are going bad from either low emission or grid leakage caused by a vacuum leak? 🦃

braveheart21 · 61-69, M

Changing the rubber band that powers this place... @trackboy

CestManan · 46-50, F

@trackboy Never get on a stereo forum to talk vacuum tubes.

It has roughly the same negative effects as bringing up the hot topics that rile people up here.

They will argue for pages about it.

trackboy · 22-25, M

@CestManan audiophiles think vacuum tubes have a better sound. there are a lot of audio amps that use vacuum tubes. 🦃

CestManan · 46-50, F

@trackboy Based off the Steve Hoffman forum though, a lot of them are still listening to the Beatles for some reason.
I want to ask them "Doesn't it ever get old?" but that would just cause a riot on there.

Just go in and ask if playing a mint original pressing of "The Wall" on a Crosley would be a bad idea. :D

trackboy · 22-25, M

@CestManan not been on the Hoffman formun. now and then read absolute sound magazine which is about high-end sound systems. hard to believe you can spend the price of a house on a sound system. 🦃

CestManan · 46-50, F

@trackboy it is a matter of audiophile versus audio fool. When was Steve Hoffman Forums though there is a lot of bickering. It might remind you of another Forum that shall go nameless

trackboy · 22-25, M

@CestManan transistors allow for frequency response down to dc. while tubes have to use coupling transformers and they roll off the low frequencies due to really low frequencies not passing from one side to the other side of the transformer. and the highs tend to get absorbed by the laminated iron core. I'm ready for Thanksgiving dinner. 🦃

CestManan · 46-50, F

@trackboy All my receivers are without tubes. The oldest one, which I use in my main system, is a Pioneer SX-60 which was built in 1984. The volume control sometimes has issues but is then fine after cleaning and dexoit'ing.

I am not sure why some thing a tube amp, with it's highs and lows limitations, sounds better. They could use a transistor-driven amp and connect an equalizer. EQ's add only minimal, unnoticeable distortion.

I know some do not like to mess with the integrity of the sound though.
They say they want to hear it as the sound engineers intended. Okay, what about when the sound is brick-walled to the point of distortion? Not that anything can fix that really.

trackboy · 22-25, M

@CestManan the tube purists talk about the warm sound. but that is because of the lack of highs due to the laminated iron cores absorbing the higher frequencies. you need a ferrite core for high frequencies that's why radio frequency transformers use a ferrite core.😺