When you give your rights up to beaurocrats...

[FrantzM]

I agree. Amazing that audiophiles in their hypersensitive zeal cannot see beyond the toreador's red cape of an article that is an obvious satire, a joke. Obvious unless you are a certain type of audiophile, that is.

Man! And what toreador Red Cape it was/is ! ... Bulls may still be fuming

lol

 

[Ron Resnick]

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=celex:32011L0065

This regulation appears (I did not read the whole thing) to limit the quantity of lead in the glass bottle part of tubes. The regulation explicitly targets only cathode ray tubes.

Since regulatory regimes generally go in only one direction (i.e., broader and more restrictive over time) at some point, absent an exemption, this regulation or its progeny likely will threaten tubes in audio amplifiers.

Why is it so natural to some people to seek to impose with the force of law their personal values on others?

They are going to have to pry my tubes from my cold, dead fingers! : )

 

[Joe Whip]

Last time I checked, lead was a neurotoxic. Something we don't want in the environment. I don't see audio tubes going anywhere but I do expect to see stricter regulations over their disposal in the future. Don't worry guys, you will all be dead by then anyway.