Tell me if i got it wrong..

C'mon, Asa, you needn't pee in the sandbox....

Wow, Asa, you are good! In your responded in 11-2-01, you
could just say listen to music, honestly. :-)

last paragraph:
"Importantly..."

Tubes do not "interpolate" values or anything else.

Solid state is not inherently more precise.

Jinmtvt has it wrong, completely wrong.

Since almost everyone's digital today has a real brick wall at just over 20kHz. the bandwidth of almost any half decent amp, tube or solid state will exceed that of the digital source by a wide margin.

The fact is that the very best solid state amps and the very best tube amps start to sound remarkably similar. They do tend to diverge in different directions,and that is due to certain inherent characteristics of the devices and the circuits that they are likely to be put into. So, the sound that we often refer to is more due to application issues both in practical circuits and less than optimal implementations and the characteristic signatures that they then produce...

Given the same bandwidth, neither is "more accurate" - at that point the only difference is the spectrum of distortion products. Which, in short is where you'd find something to measure that relates back to what you are hearing.

So, *if* there is a characteristic difference between tube sound and solid state sound it's gonna be found in the spectrum of distortion products...(and there is a real difference there)

Man, you guys proselytize your positions on very esoteric levels. That's all well and good, but if you are going to do so, at least use spel chek so you don't lose the credibility you worked so hard to establish.

Man, I missed all the fun. Reading through the posts, I saw a lot of good hard fact finding and opinionating by some and psychodelic op art by .... Then, Bwhite had me in joyful tears. What a release!

One thing caught my eye way up there; something about linearity and simplicity. I have yet to see any amp comparing in simplicity to the solid state Pass X amps, ss or tube. Like several other ss amp builders Nelson has found less compromising ways to rid distortion other than utilizing feedback. Simplifying is how some ss amp builders are closing in on tube amps when it comes to music enjoyment, and not just accuracy.