Sorry to be “no fun” here but imho like vinyl, high priced speaker cable, high priced preamps, speaker breakin, power conditioners, equipment pedestals and on and on, tubes are just another audio myth designed to generate sales. Money is best spent on a good solid state amp and speakers. Diminishing returns is very real as well. I’m listing to stacked ET lft-8b’s driven by a B&K PT-3 preamp and two dynamo stereo 400 ii amps connected by copper speaker cable and I guess copper interconnects. Probably a $7000 setup though I paid probably $3000. I’m pretty convinced that my setup is high enough on the curve of diminishing returns to be considered as equivalent to the best available.
Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?
What do you guys think?
If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?
Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?
Best,
E
P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how much of our arguments have to do with timing.
If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?
Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?
Best,
E
P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how much of our arguments have to do with timing.