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| Is there actually a difference? There are so many variables that can screw up such a test. The speakers being a big issue. Some speakers are dark, dark speakers will hid variations. If you find a good full range driver, you have no crossover issues, and assuming that the speaker... | |
| Might try a tube preamp Not bright assumes a neutral system. Nothing is bright with certain components. That they are not bright in your system is great. My system rides the razer’s edge, anything slightly bright added is immediately ear bleeding. For instance, Pasvane C... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? The wattages quoted, 30 something, is pertube, in a pushpull amp you'll double that. | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Well, I believe that John Curl went into a very enlightening discussion on how easily the standards can be gamed, not that that's happening in this case, but specifications are a lot more pliable than most understand. Again, I don't know these man... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? I don't believe that many, if any non electronic instruments go much over 15 or 16K, so I don't think that good tubes are a hindrance with regards to treble. You have found one amp you like. I'd guess that some Levinson amps, as well as some Spect... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Andy2, I don't know what current SS amplifiers are using, but older amps used standard rectifiers, most never used snubber circuits to deal with the fact that diodes ring. Replacing them with soft recovery rectifiers like IXYS bridge rectifiers cl... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Wikipedia has this to say about KT88s and their wattage;"A KT88 push-pull pair in class AB1 fixed bias is capable of 100 watts of output with 2.5% total harmonic distortion or up to about 50W at low distortion in hi-fi applications."Just because a... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Hey Dave,I obviously can't know, but it is possible that in at least some of those instances when you heard a haze it was either the transformers, as in PrimaLuna, or carbon resistors in others. I think a lot of people like that haze, it's why, IM... | |
| Might try a tube preamp Ken Rads on their own suck. They tend to be enormously microphonic, and completely lack dimensionality. What they do bring to the Freya table is tone, instruments sound real. The early 40's Raytheons add dimensionality. Chrome dome Sylvanias are b... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? A crap bomb, if YOU like, it's good. Yeah, that's a crap bomb! My knowledge and experience is finite, crap bomb. Got it, thanks for adding so much! | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Hi Dave,I was never willing to part with Krell or Levinson type of money. I suspect the haze may be a parts issue, with good caps, resistors, and such I am not hearing any haze. One other reason I have stayed away from Krell and Levinson was circu... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Hi Inna,Tubes are not for everyone, I refused to use them for decades. I had worked on some tube equipment cameras and early vidio tape recorders, 3 inch tape on reels much like old reel to reel tape recorders. Video pickup was all done with tubes... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Wow, I just got an email alerting me to a post, which apparently the author pulled saying that we are the worst. How silly. Bikers will argue in favor of their favorite bike, car enthusiasts will argue the merits of their favorite car, ad nauseam.... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? Yes, the signal into a transister modulates the DC in the following stage, hence the term semi-conductor though properly written the hyphen isn’t there of course. It doesn’t actually conduct. There is always a PN junction, or a barrier. In a tube ... | |
| Might try a tube preamp BTW, this is about MY Stasis amplifier, I sent it to Jon because he buys transistors by the hundreds and matches them, and he had identified caps that would fit, with increased capacitance. Furthermore, at that time I didn't work on amps, I didn't... |