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Wading into the waters (I'll probably regret it)

While I respect Dan Banquer, I just don't think he's seeing the whole picture.

I understand that his T&M has come up with some basic resistance etc. in the Bybee but so what? If you put a crappy audio resistor on that bench and a really good audio one, if they are within tolerance wouldn't they measure the same? What does that tell you about using them in audio?

There's the ceramic tube, an unknown conductive white material and the unknown black material. Sure looks a lot like the stuff I see in vintage tuners as components, and those where obviously there for a reason (I'm no expert in vintage components). Yet, they are simply discounting this because they don't know what it is. Ceramic can be made from many rare earth elements that do affect the signal.

Is the tube and conductive paint in the circuit path?

I don't really care about Bybee's, I have never used them. I had a dac once that did use some in the power supply, but I had no idea how that affected the sound. People in whose ears I trust, have ultimately disliked the Bybee effect in most areas (but did clearly hear an effect). I have always wanted to try them in our products power supply, but I haven't cared enough to outlay the substantial time and money involved just to try them. Bybee doesn't offer discounted or free samples to manufacturers to try them (at least they didn't to me when I approached them).

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