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| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? @unsound Its funny about that- he knew others were in the room. As far as I know he's not been writing for years now. @inna I don't agree but I am going purely from personal experience. As I said before, its a topic for another thread.It all depe... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? I recall reading a number of articles on the Internet that indicate that while audiophile grade equipment seeks to avoid the distortion you are speaking of, other audio equipment such as some guitar amps seek to embrace it. So for the lay perso... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? @mapman I've regarded the Class D technology as a sort of rising star. I've yet to hear one that beats a good tube amp in my system but I've not heard them all by any means. I use a class D amp in my keyboard setup in my band and it works pretty w... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? But, lets be truthful and real hear. Tube is better than solid state? I don't think so. Nor do I believe that Solid state is better than tube.What tubes do better than transistors is not make higher ordered harmonic distortions to which the ea... | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? @sbank you might try out a preamp that uses 6SN7s... once you hear what the 6SN7 does its hard to go back to miniature tubes. | |
| If I'm looking for "Tube Sound", why would I put a Tube Pre in front of a SS amp? The reason to put a tube preamp with solid state is if you have to compromise and want the benefit of tubes, a tube preamp will give you smoother sound and more detail than a solid state preamp. There is no way to gloss that problem over downstrea... | |
| Need amp suggestions for Hedlund Horns.... The impedance and efficiency make a lower powered OTL a good choice as well. | |
| Tube Amp vs Solid State Amp HELP Is there a reason why you are stuck between those two particular amps?? | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Great article by Art Dudley in October Stereophile. He comes down squarely on the side of the best vintage speakers not having been surpassed or even equalled by modern speakers.What is meant by 'the best vintage speakers'? old Quads? Hartsfiel... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Just a FWIW- Harvey didn't do any designs. Its George Kaye that was largely responsible for the NYAL designs- or Julius Futterman. | |
| mc cartridge loading In all the years I have been reading and talking to engineers who are involved with step up trans and carts this is the first time I ever heard this.Apparently they don't know the physics of phono sections. In the case of an SUT you have a diffe... | |
| mc cartridge loading The loading only needs attention if the phono section is sensitive to RFI at its input. The RFI is generated by the cartridge itself in part due to the afore-mentioned resonance that is set up by the inductance of the cartridge and the capacitance... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland So, the best solution could be a custom amp for particular speakers, and I mean for a particular pair of speakers.Very occasionally. Usually we see speakers built for a particular amp. But if we were a speaker manufacturer it might be the other wa... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers I've often been amused by the comments in Stereophile about how an SET can measure so poorly and yet sound so good- and further that no-one seems to know why. I have to assume that they did not ask any designers when that comment was made.IMO low ... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland There are a lot of nice comments here. One thing I think needs to be emphasized is how important the match is between the amplifier and loudspeaker!For starters, all amps make less audible distortion when driving higher impedances. To this end, if... |