MC says "Designers never came up in my post at all. Now you’re pretending it did. Crazy."
Look...the inconvenient truth is that when talking about tubes vs SS You CANNOT separate the equipment from the design if you want to discuss the harmonics that are produced. Period!
Any device, tube or transistor, will display the same basic character with respect to odd or even harmonic distortions depending on how it is used. In a single ended design there is one amplifying device covering the entire musical signal while in a push pull or complimentary design there are two: one for one half of the signal and the other the remaining half. The simple fact that second order harmonics are louder than third order harmonics in most any device dominates the single ended approach while push pull and complimentary designs cancel these distortions by the very nature of their operation. What this means is that any device, tube or transistor, will display the same basic character with respect to odd or even harmonic distortions depending on how it is used.
MC makes these erroneous claims about even harmonics being attributable to the tubes themselves...and SS gear (w/o any design considerations) produces more odd harmonics. This is just plain wrong regardless of how MC chooses to spin it. It’s not about a tube vs a transistor - it’s all about implementation...yes, the friggin’ design!
From a practical standpoint most SS designs are not single-ended and lend themselves to producing odd harmonics so MC falls into the trap of believing it must be due to the gear using SS components instead of valves. Wrong. So very wrong. This isn’t word play MC, this isn’t a game, this isn’t dastardly use of a Cusinart...this is just you not understanding something.
Look...the inconvenient truth is that when talking about tubes vs SS You CANNOT separate the equipment from the design if you want to discuss the harmonics that are produced. Period!
Any device, tube or transistor, will display the same basic character with respect to odd or even harmonic distortions depending on how it is used. In a single ended design there is one amplifying device covering the entire musical signal while in a push pull or complimentary design there are two: one for one half of the signal and the other the remaining half. The simple fact that second order harmonics are louder than third order harmonics in most any device dominates the single ended approach while push pull and complimentary designs cancel these distortions by the very nature of their operation. What this means is that any device, tube or transistor, will display the same basic character with respect to odd or even harmonic distortions depending on how it is used.
MC makes these erroneous claims about even harmonics being attributable to the tubes themselves...and SS gear (w/o any design considerations) produces more odd harmonics. This is just plain wrong regardless of how MC chooses to spin it. It’s not about a tube vs a transistor - it’s all about implementation...yes, the friggin’ design!
From a practical standpoint most SS designs are not single-ended and lend themselves to producing odd harmonics so MC falls into the trap of believing it must be due to the gear using SS components instead of valves. Wrong. So very wrong. This isn’t word play MC, this isn’t a game, this isn’t dastardly use of a Cusinart...this is just you not understanding something.