{"id":559,"date":"2013-11-19T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2013-11-19T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T17:31:41","slug":"vintage-telefunken-12ax7-tube-review-mwds-latest-on-talkers-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Telefunken 12AX7 Tube Review &#8211; MWD&#8217;s latest on Talkers magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/freedomfeens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AnarchyTube3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5156\" alt=\"AnarchyTube3\" src=\"http:\/\/freedomfeens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/AnarchyTube3-172x300.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The transition in audio production from analog to digital over the past couple decades has been a boon for radio. No more splicing tape, and no more finding the right tape or piece of tape. And don\u2019t get me started on those dreaded carts. I\u2019m thankful they\u2019ve been replaced by a click on the screen. Tape hiss is something I don\u2019t miss either.However, in some ways, digital audio production is <i>too<\/i> clean. So after ditching tubes and tapes for transistors, integrated circuits and hard drives, some people have gone back to analog for one phase of the audio chain: the pre-amp.Tube pre-amps and compressors have sonic attributes that cannot yet be replicated with digital modeling. Tubes provide a warmth that comes from semi-random, subtle distortion on certain harmonics. That sounds like it would be a bad thing, but it\u2019s actually a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Tube pre-amps used to be in every radio and music studio. Not so anymore. Tube pre-amps are one reason (of many) why Frank Sinatra and Black Sabbath both sound better than most music today. (Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkers.com\/2013\/11\/19\/vintage-telefunken-12ax7-tube-review\/\">MORE&#8230;.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transition in audio production from analog to digital over the past couple decades has been a boon for radio. No more splicing tape, and no more finding the right tape or piece of tape. And don\u2019t get me started on those dreaded carts. I\u2019m thankful they\u2019ve been replaced by a click on the screen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/?p=559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage Telefunken 12AX7 Tube Review &#8211; MWD&#8217;s latest on Talkers magazine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talkers","category-tubes","hfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creamyradioaudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}