You asked specifically for books-- let me add some podcasts:
Check out https://www.youtube.com/@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar An overview of the US Pacific war with a professional historian and WW2 museum director, and a retired submarine captain/commodore who served in the Pacific. Lots of high-quality guests, too, often including Parshall and sometimes Tully from bloopernova's list.
<<NOTE: Deadline.>> Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall--
(1) declassify any and all information relating to potential
links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of
the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), including--
(A) activities performed by the Wuhan Institute of
Virology with or on behalf of the People's Liberation
Army;
(B) coronavirus research or other related activities
performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to
the outbreak of COVID-19; and
(C) researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
who fell ill in autumn 2019, including for any such
researcher--
(i) the researcher's name;
(ii) the researcher's symptoms;
(iii) the date of the onset of the
researcher's symptoms;
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(iv) the researcher's role at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology;
(v) whether the researcher was involved with
or exposed to coronavirus research at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology;
(vi) whether the researcher visited a hospital
while they were ill; and
(vii) a description of any other actions taken
by the researcher that may suggest they were
experiencing a serious illness at the time; and
(2) <<NOTE: Reports.>> submit to Congress an unclassified
report that contains--
(A) all of the information described under paragraph
(1); and
(B) only such redactions as the Director determines
necessary to protect sources and methods.
Dang, there’s a blast from the past. I wrote up the original wiki for the Featherstone Library, creating the fiction that it was named after Donald Featherstone, and was a founder of the FFL.
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I know a little about tube guitar amps, and my understanding is that they are desired due to their “defects” compared to more accurate solid state transistors. I would assume headphone amps would want pristine amplification— why would you want tubes, then?
The slight touch of harmonic distortion from a tube amp can sound nice, even though it might not be totally transparent.
Tube amps are also a lot of fun to build and tinker with because of the huge diversity in tube models, the operating point at which the tubes are run, the gain stage topology, power supply designs, etc. Personally I find that different tube designs almost always sound a little different from each other while well-designed transistor amps sound indistinguishable or almost indistinguishable from one another.
> Tube amps are also a lot of fun to build and tinker with because of the huge diversity in tube models, the operating point at which the tubes are run, the gain stage topology, power supply designs, etc.
You could say all of that about FETs and regular transistors too.
Yeah that is true, but with tube amps you can tinker around with the circuit and actually hear a meaningful difference, which is more difficult with solid state amplification IME
Those "defects" is just non linearity in the circuit. At low gain factors (much lower than a guitar amp) it creates prominent 2nd, 3rd, and 4th harmonic distortion (depending on the circuit) which corresponds to the musical intervals of an octave, octave + fifth, and 2nd octave. That sound is typically described as "warmth" and can be quite pleasing. It also increases the RMS of the signal without (greatly) affecting dynamics, which makes it perceptually louder.
Some people like the ultra hifi systems with crazy THD+N metrics, with super flat speakers in the deadest room they can find to get the most "pristine" sound they can. Other people like listening through systems that subtly color their favorite recordings to match their taste. Different strokes for different folks.
Tube amps (as do transistor amps) can vary quite a bit in how much they change the sound, e.g. part of the appeal of tube guitar amps is that you can drive them out of the area they work "most precise" into distortion, and that distortion sounds interesting. And some people like the sound changes tube amps cause for listening.
There is an story that when the Beetle's went to record at the BBC there was an argument with the BBC sound recording Engineer that no way was he allowing distortion to go out on the BBC :-)
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