Toobs + SS = x


In another thread on 07-25-01 Redkiwi said:

"I simply do not concur with the popular wisdom of warming things up with a tube preamp - look elsewhere and remove the problem - adding countervailing distortions is just wrong, wrong, wrong (in my humble opinion of course - I can see the negative votes now).."

More discourse on this comment, please!
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Showing 1 response by bluefin

I don't get it. When you think you got a good ss pre-amp, you argue "the sound is not cool, high is not edgy..." (isn't it like tube people say?). You put it in and then think you got problem fixed. How do you know your ss-pre is not "colored"? Maybe that particular good ss-pre you mention is the only "colored" ss same as tube, and you just love it. What's wrong with other people doing it by tube-pre?
Or you put on "colored" power amp to fix it?

Just kidding, we should fix the bottle-neck component.
Agree!
Just wonder if ss-pre + tube power is just one of good combinations you happen to encounter.
And it is not necessarily a "golden rule".