Does that kind of response sound like you are educating others?
Sure. The transistor is one of the most critical inventions there is. This site would not exit, nor the Internet without it. It drastically reduces power consumption, shrinks the sizes of components and provides incredible fidelity that no tube product ever produced. As if to try to be hip by being contrarians, some audiophiles have clung to tubes, hypnotized by the glowing filaments, convincing themselves that they are hearing better fidelity.
So here I come and show how much dirt the tube amp is throwing in the signal. And that for this privilege, you pay boatload of money to boot. Any rational person would say what you quoted. It is like building a car today with a steam engine and claiming it goes faster than a Porsche but when the data comes out that it accelerates at 1/100 of the rate, expect praise to be poured over said steam engine car!
Granted, that example was that of a better designed tube amp:
This is how it performed:
Why in the heck should anyone buy a tube amp when even a good example has this kind of noise and distortion? Again, do you not have any respect for the work of the artist and engineers and produced the content? They didn't use this amp to produce the music, right? Why do you want to serve their food in such a dirty dish?
You simply refuse to match gear properly.
Oh. That is like saying this is a great car but you better weigh less than 100 pounds to drive it! It is not my job to "match" gear when I can buy huge number of other amplifiers that don't need any matching. How would matching reduces its noise and distortion? How do you know the impedance of the amp and the impedance of the speaker to know how to match them? Answer: you do that with measurements. But again, why, oh why?
There is not one controlled listening test that shows any of these tube amps to sound better. All of the fans and companies producing tube amps have not had the wherewithal to produce just a single, ears-only test, to show that they sound better. If it is so easy to tell they sound better, why don't you produce this simple test result?
I tell you why: because you won't find the answer you are looking for. Tube amps at best have harmless distortion. At worst and in many cases, have clear audible noise and distortion. In the case of tube amplifiers, that is trivially shown as they run out of power and distortion like hell.
You want to believe in fantasies and magic? Do that. But don't tell me this picture of fidelity:
Or you could have this:
All of the above are with dead easy to drive resistive loads by the way. And at just 5 watts. These tube amps are pure noise and distortion generators. They are an insult to decades of progress in engineering to resort to them for anything other than nostalgic look.
