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Thunderbird Club

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Stealth57 said:
For those of you in the electronics space, just was told that HP is going to net 90 days on invoices. Of course, I told them that's not going to happen. But, this is a sign that they think the economy is heading south. Anyone else seeing anything similar?
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I'm steadily re-tagging the showroom, you can guess which way the prices are going.

Glad I already own a lot of nice Thunderbirds.
Still NR Monday too!

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Engle said:
I'm pretty sure my G30 wireless puts an analog>digital>analog conversion right at the beginning of my signal chain.
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The wireless converts the signal to digital and the back to analog. I don't remember who it was who told me that a solid state amplifier is essentially a digital amplifier because that's how transistors work. I'm not sure I believe or even understand that, but if it's true, then there's more digital in the signal chain. Same with the Broughton filter and whatever other shiny boxes are turned on at any given time. I assume the DI box is more or less a pass-through, although it takes power. So maybe it's digital in some way, too.
 
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TBird1958 said:
I'm steadily re-tagging the showroom, you can guess which way the prices are going.

Glad I already own a lot of nice Thunderbirds.
Still NR Monday too!

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Yep. I have a nice set of Gibson Thunderbirds. The Bicentennial, the ‘05 Studio, the ‘11 short scale, the ‘13 NR, the wonderful ‘15, and the ‘21 NR. I love my Epi birds too. And my BaCH NRs. And it turns out I can only play one at a time.
 
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Gaolee said:
The wireless converts the signal to digital and the back to analog. I don't remember who it was who told me that a solid state amplifier is essentially a digital amplifier because that's how transistors work. I'm not sure I believe or even understand that, but if it's true, then there's more digital in the signal chain. Same with the Broughton filter and whatever other shiny boxes are turned on at any given time. I assume the DI box is more or less a pass-through, although it takes power. So maybe it's digital in some way, too.
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Transistors can be used in analog or digital circuits. There may be digital aspects to parts of an amp.
Your Acoustic amp or my 78 Peavey don't have any D/A or A/D signal conversion going on.
 
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Gaolee said:
There are a couple D-Birds on Reverb today. It's been a while since I looked there, and I'm astonished by the prices. There will be plenty of other ways for me to get rid of money, but not in quite such large batches on one thing.
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I’ve had the opportunity to play George’s green one. He rewired it and it sounds good. It balances well from what I recall and feels pretty light. I really like the Matte color. It only takes seconds to adapt to the fanned fret layout. They’re rare. I would welcome one if it flew in. But I will never pay 6K for one. Or any amount remotely close to that. But that’s me. Others may feel differently.
 
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