>> Ge is good in certain circuits because it has a soft knee. Replacing it
>> with a sharp knee modern Shottky or whatever diode produces entirely
>> different results.
>
>Sounds like the "soft" sound you get from a tube vs Transistor myth.

I don't think it was a myth, too many people with good ears say that, and
it wasn't the tubes it was the transformers in most cases.

What I had in mind was oscillator and other RF stage damping (by putting
diodes directly on the tank circuit) and signal former circuits where the
Ge has a nice (?) quadratic curve vs. a much sharper knee for Shottky.

Peter

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