Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first?

The names Glupson...Bad Glupson!  Get it right Jeffkate

I’ve had inuendo removed...isn’t suck on the offensive list as well?

Perhaps there is some favoritism here afterall?

How technology is implemented is the key!  Lots of bad SS and Tube gear...not to mention Digital and Vinyl.

I am all for tubes, but saying they are not an obsolete technology is a bit of over-optimistic stretch of imagination. Ask anyone younger than 40 about tubes. Chances are they will not have any idea what you are even talking about, much less have ever seen or used one.

This has to do with human hearing-perceptual rules. The reason tubes are still around is that its easier to build a sonically pleasing amplifier with tubes than it is with transistors after all this time.

Sure, transistors have 'lower' distortion. But the distortions they have are far more audible to the human ear. One of the problems facing the audio industry is that harmonic distortions are not weighted according to how the ear perceives them. The 5th and 7th are far more audible than the 2nd; that is why many transistor amps are brighter and harsher than tube amps, even though they may have 100th the THD.

But in case anyone has any illusions, the larger tube plants are kept alive by the music industry, i.e. guitar amplifiers. But this allows for tubes to be advanced- such as the KT150, which didn't exist 10 years ago.