[Skylab]

I have thrown at least several dozen tubes in the trash.  If they are bad, they are bad.  Better not to accidentally get them confused with a good one.

 

[Silent One]

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The only tube that actually died on me was my EML rectifier, and it was "recycled" to a new one with its warranty

Just when I recovered from your experience, the reintroduction brings back fears renewed.  

 

 

[Silent One]

WA 6 Special Edition ~
 
I'm cleaning things up for my anniversary party and received the following beauty tip from Woo Audio:
 
"You can use water based metal cleaner/polisher like the Twinkle or even just
a wet towel would do the job." - Woo Audio
 
Going to get my tea bowl caressing hands on Twinkle's Stainless Steel Cleaner and Polish, 17-oz Aerosol Can. Hopefully, this will provide me with careful control and distribution. Making it easy to clean with a light elegant touch, in the same manner I would a Fabergé egg.
 
Cheers!
 
 
 

 

 

[Silent One]

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I have thrown at least several dozen tubes in the trash.  If they are bad, they are bad.  Better not to accidentally get them confused with a good one.

No recycling concerns in Illinois? 

  From San Francisco to San Diego and Santa Monica in between, surely head-fier's out West would seek alternative means of disposal other than the 'can.' At least I would hope. However, I do see your point - getting tubes mixed up late into the night? The horror!  

 

 

[Skylab]

We do have recycling, but I am not sure that vacuum tubes qualify for what we recycle here...maybe the ones without the bakelite bases would...

 

[grokit]

If they recycle CFLs that would probably be the way to go.

 

[Clayton SF]

Recycling vacuum tubes as you would glass is not permissible in San Francisco because they may contain hazardous materials. Vacuum tubes contain harmful elements such as heavy metals in their filaments. Like most electronic waste, they require careful consideration. You should contact the Global Electronics Recycling Network. This group maintains a network of electronic recycling organizations in many countries. Use its website to locate an electronics recycling organization near your home; you can find out the drop-off location and the cost of disposing of your vacuum tubes.

 

[WarriorAnt]

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Recycling vacuum tubes as you would glass is not permissible in San Francisco because they may contain hazardous materials. Vacuum tubes contain harmful elements such as heavy metals in their filaments. Like most electronic waste, they require careful consideration. You should contact the Global Electronics Recycling Network. This group maintains a network of electronic recycling organizations in many countries. Use its website to locate an electronics recycling organization near your home; you can find out the drop-off location and the cost of disposing of your vacuum tubes.

Just send them to me, I'l make works of art out of them. thats way better than a landfill.
 
 

 

[grokit]

 
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Recycling vacuum tubes as you would glass is not permissible in San Francisco because they may contain hazardous materials. Vacuum tubes contain harmful elements such as heavy metals in their filaments. Like most electronic waste, they require careful consideration. You should contact the Global Electronics Recycling Network. This group maintains a network of electronic recycling organizations in many countries. Use its website to locate an electronics recycling organization near your home; you can find out the drop-off location and the cost of disposing of your vacuum tubes.

As do fluorescent lamps, I wasn't speaking of recycling them as glass which is different.

 

[Clayton SF]

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Just send them to me, I'l make works of art out of them. thats way better than a landfill.

Ah! Like ships in a bottle or something like that:

 

[Xcalibur255]

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I now find it almost impossible to fully enjoy a CD played back in even a very high end transport as compared to the disc being ripped and sent via Pure Music Memory Play into the same DAC.

It is still very different than really good analog but exists on it's own plane that in several areas can be quite superior.

This is me, only the exact opposite.  I've struggled for years now over why a bit perfect ripped file on the PC doesn't sound the same as spinning the actual CD, because in my case the result always sounds worse.  This came up just recently again, after building my new PC.  The most bizarre part is that the sound card didn't change, I re-used it from the old system...... yet the sound quality is distinctly different than before with the exact same files, settings, and audio hardware.  The only thing that changed was going from an XP to a Win7 driver for that soundcard.  If the ones and zeros are the same ones on the disc, it should sound the same if no re-sampling is present (and there isn't since I am using ASIO), but it never does and I've never found a satisfying explanation why.  The PC playback always sounds more hard-edged and shouty, as though there is less dynamic headroom.
 

 

[mikemalter]

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Ah! Like ships in a bottle or something like that:

I WANT one!
 
 

 

[grokit]

 

[Clayton SF]

 
She got mad at me for spending too much money on frivolous vacuum tubes for my Woo Audio amps so I bought her a bouquet of flowers to bring peace and harmony to the household and to also beautify the living room and she got mad at me again. Go figure!
 

 

[WarriorAnt]

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Ah! Like ships in a bottle or something like that:

Yes this is what I'm talking about!  Things so beautiful they scream for a use in a second life.