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| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Tubes are not better. As a technician/engineer that started my career in the days of mil-spec tubes that you can no longer purchase, I can tell you no Class A tube amp can match solid state for linearity. They all produce non-linear amplificati... | |
| 300b lovers How would you compare the sonics of your 300B amp to the the Class D amp you make now? You’re the creator of both, so you’re in the best position to evaluate and compare. I only spent a half-hour of casual listening to the Purifi at the show (and... | |
| 300b lovers Ralph, I sincerely invite you to build your own 300B amplifier. @lynn_olson I did just exactly that some years ago and played the amplifier at a CES in the late 1990s. The 300bs were driven by a cathode follower direct coupled to the grids of t... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? Ralph, I was recommending your GaN amp elsewhere on this site, but his speakers do drop below 4 Ohms I think in the upper bass range, but there are no specs I can find for your amp if it’s stable down to 2 Ohms and what the power output would be ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Although I must claim total ignorance, as I didn't past the comment that tubes are warm because they produce harmonic distortion. @pedroeb To be clear, all amplifiers produce harmonic distortion. In general there are two kinds of harmonic disto... | |
| Perplexed on how single driver speakers can cover such a large Hz range My ears say otherwise, but they can’t read. @dlcockrum You might want to go some place where you can hear other speakers. As I pointed out earlier, it makes a big difference what sort of music you play. Any ’full range’ speaker will fall flat o... | |
| 300b lovers @alexberger The 6SN7 can support fairly high current which is why it can make a good driver tube if used properly. It can also make an excellent voltage amplifier (1st stage of gain) since it is quite linear if used correctly. SETs usually do not... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? @soix https://www.epifani.com/ makes some interesting bass amps. Powerful and quite lightweight with some heavy hitters playing with them. You can see where this is going... | |
| Perplexed on how single driver speakers can cover such a large Hz range The old constraints described above for crossoverless single-driver speakers have been nearly, if not totally, eliminated: @dlcockrum This statement is false. I explained why in my prior post. | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? Would you say that in your experience with Class D speaker matching is easier or more difficult? Compared to a tube amp, easier! Most speakers are designed to be 'voltage driven' which is to say that the amplifier is supposed to be a 'voltage s... | |
| 300b lovers Since he is no longer with us to defend his design, what do you think are the positive attributes of a differential output stage in a tube power amp? @jaytor Since Lynn isn’t going there I’ll take this one. The advantage is the differential eff... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? "Seems many comments above are talking about artificiality of solid state. Tubes introduce a more realistic Sonic impression versus scientifically created solid state transistor stuff. Tweaking all those electronics to get sound suitable for list... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? In your case with exciting class-D amp success, does this somehow suggest you are eventually planning on shutting down your tube amp manufacturing side of the business, i.e. "are on life support"? @decooney That depends on sales. But if we can ... | |
| 300b lovers @donsachs Yes- those Joseph speakers were nice. I can see 88-89 for smaller speakers. I have a little 5 Watt tube amp I designed for desktop or a bedroom system and I use a pair of Fritz Carbon 6s with it, which are 88dB and I never run the amp ... | |
| Benz Micro Glider Loading Question - any benefit of having the loading terminal option removed from my MP-3? Might its existence allow for noise? No- it can act as an antenna for RFI, but the input of the MP-3 is built to reject RFI. I borrowed a friend's Parasound JC... |