OldRoadToad
Headphoneus Supremus
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We (humans) are said to have five senses - Taste, Touch, Smell, Hearing and Sight. Just as there are no genuine audible benefits to frAudi foo-foo 'upgrades" (but oh lawdy how dey doo claims 'em!) such as wire, fuses, M&Ms, green marker pens, TICE clocks and more, so too is there NOTHING to be audibly gained by the absolutely toadish foo-foo of some thing totally and unabashedly visual as LED lighting for a LIIST "tube".
Like the aforementioned sound "upgrades", LED lighting simulating the glow of REAL tubes is there for visual satisfaction. If you get right down to it, why would any one buy a TUBE amp and then make it a SOLID STATE amp? I would miss the soft glow of the tubes so I proffered a 7% "solution" to an addiction of the admittedly visual kind, i.e., LEDs to make the soul glow of a tube amp. In doing so I am demonstrating the dislike of those I call frAudiophiles for any thing not related toward their OCD. They will fartily (AHAH! Take that, John Asskissin' and Co.) claim that M&Ms care fully placed (using military grade strategery!) atop speakers "change" or "enhance" the sound. They claim that a fuse (which is not polarized but their opinions certainly are) will change the sound of the music.
They claim that by taking a "special" green marker and using it to seal in the "transient" (i.e., home less, i.e. residentially challenged) light of the CD laser they change the sound out put of a digital device (CD players). They claim that what amounts to wire clad in a really cool package some times costing thousands of dollars (and more) per meter drastically changes the sound of their system. That last one is totally visual and I get the visual part but I would NEVER say that a freakin' LED makes any thing "sound" different, let alone "better". My OCD frAudiophile friend put H.O. train trestles under his expensive speaker wires to hold them off the floor in order to prevent sound from being gravitationally misdirected away from his transducers. I once wore an "Engineer Fred" cap over to his place and politely asked if I could play with the trains. He did not laugh but who cares? I did.
I am also showing off my 6th sense, not ESP all though I am kinda sorta paying homage to the 1972 TV series starring Gary Collins, but that rarest of senses among the OCD set that flocks to audio, "humor". So yeah, there's zero audio benefit to making some thing visually pleasing. But again, why change from tube to SS when you bought a tube amp? A Vali of The Toad would never have a LIIST put in it (if, that is, it were ever made by Schiit!). I do not "roll" tubes because they break too easily. I might change them out if I found one that looked more bitchin' but that is not a frAudiophilian trait. It is more an amphibian idiotsyncrasy...Call it "toadish". Why? Because what I do makes me happy. But I would never claim that it would improve the sound of Schiit. Or any thing else by any body else but since this thread is about Schiit I semi-cleverly used their name in a play on words.
Thus endeth the ramblin' of a fool for now...
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