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From: ross@raster.UUCP (Ross Werner)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Re: In defense of solid-state devices
Message-ID: <261@raster.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 11:56:59 EST
Article-I.D.: raster.261
Posted: Mon Oct 26 11:56:59 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 23:52:35 EST
References: <729@alliant.Alliant.COM> <4124@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Reply-To: ross@raster.UUCP (Ross Werner)
Organization: Raster Technologies, Westford, MA
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Keywords: Blue light  LED  silicon carbide  blue LED
Xref: mnetor rec.audio:3999 sci.electronics:1636

>In article <2017@mtx5a.ATT.COM> mat@mtx5a.ATT.COM (m.terribile) writes:
>>If you want to sell on the audiophile market, you really should get a blue
>>glow in there; everybody will assume it's a new variation on the Beam Power
>>Tube.  [...]  If you have to use a LED, then use green, [...]

You guys are really behind.  The Bedini power amp beat you all to it.
They grind off the TO-3 cans on the power transistors (by hand, of course!)
and fill them with some "proprietary crytalline substance" that "improves 
transient speed" and lots of other such bull.  AND THEY GLOW IN THE DARK! 

New! Improved!  The speed and punch of transistors!  The warm glow of tubes!

The manufacturer is in southern California - maybe that explains it.

Ross

(I'm allowed to make jokes about southern CA, I grew up there.)