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Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?
What do you guys think?
If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?
Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?
Best,
E
P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how much of our arguments have to do with timing.
If transistors came first, and then decades later tubes were invented, would we have any tube amps we would call high end?
Wouldn’t they all fail to reach the height of performance and transparency set by transistor amps?
Best,
E
P.S. I love Conrad Johnson. I'm just wondering how much of our arguments have to do with timing.
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twoleftears The tube renaissance coincided with the release of early digitalOh no, not even close. The tube renaissance really began with William Z. Johnson and his Audio Research Corp. The SP-3 was an extremely influential component and helped define the high-end; that was around 1974. |
Interesting, because Dr. Leach’s paper on building a low TIM solid state amplifier was also around that time: http://users.ece.gatech.edu/mleach/papers/lowtim/feb76feb77articles.pdf It could very well be the time was right in 1974-1976 for an overall HI-Fi revival. |
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