Originally Posted by
Rothchild
Honestly, no. I think it's a fair misunderstanding that you thought that, but it's not what I meant. It was more that I was acknowledging that there is that argument but didn't feel it was actually wholly relevant to the context at hand, and, as a follow on to my more general point about the vageries of what they're actually doing, the image (of a well known 'colour box' processor) and absense of a positive reason for the inclusion of another stage (valve or otherwise) led me to determine that they elected to put it in there to appeal to the naive 'valves are necessarily better' mentality than due to a seriously considered and researched position. Of course I stand to be proven wrong on this, but given that the list of uncoloured valve boxes pales in to insignificance against the number of coloured ones makes me feel relatively safe in my view.