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It's a joke, understand. Carver demonstrated that he could build a transistor amplifier that matched the transfer function of an arbitrary tube amplifier. It didn't sell and annoyed the tube fans. So he built this thing to shut up the extreme audiophiles. It still sells.



The joy of tube equipment is they look cool. Hence putting the tubes outside of the enclosure.




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