Well when I'm sitting back in my recliner sipping some lovely burbon and listening to well recorded music I like my tube amps. When I want to add some tube sound to a channel I like tube preamps. When I need 50,000w to run a stadium system I like SS for both price per watt and neutrality. They are both tools, use them as you see fit.
The best that sounds to me.🙂 i prefer SS for bass and tube or hybrid for mids and highs.
my subjective description of the "sound" i like is : tight bass , clear but soft mids (slightly recessed like i like to call them) and soft crisp highs. my setup is very good in the bass department courtesy of my JBL subs
and visatons woofers , the highs are good courtesy of my fountek ribbons . the mids i´m looking for alternatives to replace what i have right now , havent my my mind yet on scanspeak or audax .
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Unless you have a solo flutist playing into a "flat" mic tied directly into a cd recorder/Vinyl master cutter.....the notion of "true" music is rather pointless. Way too mach multi-tracking, EQ-ing, tweaking, etc!! Too much going on before we even pop the CD/Vinyl into our machines.
It just seems to me SS circuitry is just so much concerned with "correction", rebiasing, active corrections, etc....More effort spent "correcting" the signal than just amplifying it! Tubes are just so much more elegant, simple...After all we are just cranking it up..Precision is the implementation & paying attention to detail, quality..........not backing up like SS & correcting everything.
Kinda reminds me of Bill Gates & his cronies at Intel...."Wanna make it run better, stick a fire under the processor"(Clocking). When I was dealing with computers at the beginning, I imagined a phone-book of processors from Abraham thru Zelda.........65,535 lines of micro-data busses, a virtual Lego-block construction techniques, a true 'Core', liquid cooled 'core'............Just now some are marveling at 8--16 "core" machines, some of us are just shaking our heads of just how it COULD have been.
Seems SS has gone down this type of road.........
Now.....we have Class 'D', quite intriguing this new stuff.........I will skip SS altogether & embrace the 'new'......while still fawning for the masterful glow of tubes.
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It just seems to me SS circuitry is just so much concerned with "correction", rebiasing, active corrections, etc....More effort spent "correcting" the signal than just amplifying it! Tubes are just so much more elegant, simple...After all we are just cranking it up..Precision is the implementation & paying attention to detail, quality..........not backing up like SS & correcting everything.
Kinda reminds me of Bill Gates & his cronies at Intel...."Wanna make it run better, stick a fire under the processor"(Clocking). When I was dealing with computers at the beginning, I imagined a phone-book of processors from Abraham thru Zelda.........65,535 lines of micro-data busses, a virtual Lego-block construction techniques, a true 'Core', liquid cooled 'core'............Just now some are marveling at 8--16 "core" machines, some of us are just shaking our heads of just how it COULD have been.
Seems SS has gone down this type of road.........
Now.....we have Class 'D', quite intriguing this new stuff.........I will skip SS altogether & embrace the 'new'......while still fawning for the masterful glow of tubes.
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Whats there to refine ...?
Yes ...... this will be good .....😀
Articles, Times , news week ......? 😛
Ohhh no ................ More !!!!
Uhh huh ......😉
Uhhh Huh ....... 😉
What deh Denon ..........?
Yeah , thats why you listen to tubes instead of your denon ....
😛So frequency response peaks does not produce distortion ....? 😱
Yeah , thats why you listen to tubes instead of your denon ....
No, that's why I can't afford my own designs. When I have some finished prototype I enjoy it, until it's gone to somebody who can afford it.
And what if you were listening to a good recording of the 50KW stadium system? Would you use tubes? 😉
Where can i see one of these beasties ...?
Careful .... toobeys think they can ......🙂
In your living room. If you can afford one, of course. I have some 200W monoblocks on staples.
200watts ..🙄
Wouldn't even tickle the tweeters .😛 So nothing to see, what's it called Pussin-abag 1.0... 😀
What do they compare to ? are they SET, PP...?
Wouldn't even tickle the tweeters .😛 So nothing to see, what's it called Pussin-abag 1.0... 😀
What do they compare to ? are they SET, PP...?
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They are PP. Compared may be to other Wavebourn Pyramids.
However, they will drive line arrays on freqs above 150 Hz, for lows class D amps will be added.
However, they will drive line arrays on freqs above 150 Hz, for lows class D amps will be added.
Well you should get one, i heard they may be good .....🙂
Toobs are not in my immediate future, i'm currently into big, low-z, low sensitivity "transducers" 🙂 had my fair share in the past , no plans to go there anytime soon...
and no tubes are not better than SS , nor SS better than toobs .......... Different ? application ?
Toobs are not in my immediate future, i'm currently into big, low-z, low sensitivity "transducers" 🙂 had my fair share in the past , no plans to go there anytime soon...
and no tubes are not better than SS , nor SS better than toobs .......... Different ? application ?
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Don't be gettin' the tubies to start thinking about "Stadium sound", they'll be thinking about tubes the size of trashcans........then your 'stadiums' will be sporting bass horns the size of Greyhound buses.
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