paulfolbrecht
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| Tubes vs. solid state. Now that I have sold my ASR Emitter, I can comment on it a bit more with no conflict of interest.The Emitter is the best amplifier I have ever had or heard, and it gives up _nothing_ to any tube amp. It is absolutely as smooth and holographic as t... | |
| Most NEUTRAL class A mono's Original Sonic Impact T-amp. | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. Minorl is touching upon what Ralph calls the power-paradigm/voltage-paradigm issue. Those white papers of his are illuminating regarding how amplifiers interact with loudspeakers. | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. A-S, of course I pretty much agree with your thoughts. (And I do not have your engineering knowledge.)I think most agree Pass amps sound great but not really like [very good] tube amps.. dimensionality does seem to be a bit flatter for one thing. ... | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. Anyone who claims that the "overall superior performance" of solid-state has been "scientifically proven" has no understanding of the real issues.I guess it was proven in the 70s when we had those wonderful solid-state amplifiers with their amazin... | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. It sounds pretty fascinating. Can you reference any papers available online?Of course, as you well know, the math only takes you so far because our knowledge of the ear/brain system is so limited. For example, who would have thought that upper-ord... | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. Olesonmd has the critical point - the whole point of tubes in guitar amps is their overload characteristics - in audio, while the way tubes overload may *help* certain things, we want them out of that range!Yes, Ralph, I would like to hear everyth... | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. Tvad is right.And your tubed preamp should not be doing the bad things you say it is. It is easy enough to make a valved pre completely wide-bandwidth and quiet. | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. The ASR Emitter is one such SS amp that gives up nothing to tubes, and does certain other things no tube amp can do. Used prices are not so bad, especially since it's an integrated. (Yes I have one listed but actually I'm keeping it.)The Red Wine ... | |
| Prefered Freight Company Six great experiences with Pilot Freight here. | |
| Tubes vs. solid state. guyz ever try tubed bubes? As in you tape on a 6SN7. killer stuff. | |
| Full Range Drivers I have owned Lamhorns, Beauhorns, C&C Abbys, C&C Bens, Tonian TL-D1s, and 2nd Rethms. The two speakers I occasionally miss quite a bit in that bunch are the Lamhorns and Tonians - both have qualities that are quite remarkable and really se... | |
| Tube 'Characteristics' - EL-34 and 845 and 211 It's like I said earlier - an 845 will (in almost any implementation) have that "lit from within" DHT glow in the midrange. For many, that is the ultimate in beauty.EL34s have a sort of creamy midrange too, one that is possibly more euphonic, but ... | |
| Tube 'Characteristics' - EL-34 and 845 and 211 Actually the common wisdom is that triodes are more 'beautiful' and truthful than pentodes (or anything else), and directly-heated triodes doubly so. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with EL34s (especially strapped triode) but you aren't goin... | |
| Is it CD or SACD? You will hear 44,100 samples per second if playing the CD layer but 2.8 million bits per second on SACD. |