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Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?
Yes tubes are more involved and require periodic maintenance. Hybrid tube components need not apply, these are really solid state.
Tubes are better for multiple reasons and yet the world and the trade prefers solid state. Those rare audio shops that are geared toward stereo listening and serious connoisseurs tend to Focus more on tubes. Those in business who like to improve volumes tend to offer solid state. All the YouTube channels looking to improve their business tend to be solid state. Maybe because tubes require much more expertise to sell, and there's lesser and lesser to go around. Solid state is more of a fast food commodity.
Tubes are difficult for businesses due to all the maintenance and complexity so you see it less often. Much much easier to sell hybrids or solid state.
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look at jjss49 post
"you can usually sus out a troll with a few clicks, takes no more than a minute click username click system click marketplace feedback click responses and discussions started in this case... joined in 2020, nothing under system, not a single buy/sell transaction on audiogon, zero feedback -- but has started (not responded, to, but STARTED) 176 threads patently obvious what this is... it starts with bull and ends with sh*t" This all you need to know about emergingsoul. This guy is irritating! |
@voodoofunk You can't even find another 300b or 45 based amp that will do that- for that matter probably not even another 2A3 based amp.
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@jeffseight Last week you mentioned about the "tubey solid state sound" you use. Could you please enlighten us, not as to brands or products so much as to what traits those solid state amps have and what ICs/transistors they use? e.g., are there transistors that introduce the rich mellow sounds of even harmonics without other distortions? that provide the damping as to tubes? what other traits in the sound are you referring to? And what transistors/ICs are you referring to that must be at the heart of your systems? Any SS manufacturers that are generating a tubey sound must have at the core of their pre-amps and their power amps some unit that is identifiable across the board. Can you please help us with this? |
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