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Tubes versus valves
Interesting linguistic distinction. One name alludes to form and content and the other to function.
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She's a Beauty, Talk To Ya Later, What Do You Want From Life? and White Punks on Dope were all pretty good.
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How about Fey Waybill vs Gary Numan. Different accents for sure.
I watch YT clips about audio equipment and was not familiar with "valve" in that context until I heard the terminology used by English guys.
The original post kind of reminded me about what I heard Graham Nash tell about Barn vs House
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Yes, "valves" is a widely used British term or description for the North American "tube"
EEV is the abbreviation of English Electric Valve, a British designer and manufacturer of circuit tubes.
Another brand name that I recall is EV Richardson, a North American company.
In broadcast, EEV manufactured the Leddicon as a competitor product to the Philips Plumbicon camera imaging or "pickup" tube.
EEV also manufactures the IOT used in many RF transmitters at the high power output stage.
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DX wrote:
She's a Beauty, Talk To Ya Later, What Do You Want From Life? and White Punks on Dope were all pretty good.
And Sushi Girl…..!
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I used to own Norton and a Triumph motorcycles in my younger days. The British repair manuals called wrenches spanners.