Tube Power vs Solid State Power

The question isn’t silly if one does not know and is seeking guidance…
I just wish the hard core guys on this site would provide more guidance in this hobby with their experience of higher grade products to the Mid Fi’ers who now would like to move up to Hi-Fi rather than see it as an opportunity to tell people their set ups are crap. You have to walk before you can run, you have find what you like and build from there. Growth is best achieved if mentored and keep in mind, most manufacturers believe due to technology taking it’s toll on this industry, component audio is a dying market, so by scaring away newbies rather than encouraging it’s growth hurts us all who enjoy this hobby in the long run.

Calm down OP, no one is picking on you, you have to meet the gate keepers, don't you? Some SEEM grumpy, they are all a pretty good bunch of folks.. :-)

Remember this if nothing else.

To whom should a gift that is being returned, be returned too?

The giver of course.

You DON'T have to receive or accept anyone's insults (or gifts as I call them) if you don't want to.. I THINK the lead pipe would hit the bottom first, BUT that is just me being the class clown..

Welcome OP.. Enjoy.. ASK away...

Regards

A watt is a watt. This is what in logic is called a tautology, a statement that is always true and therefore says nothing. A watt is a watt is the kind of thing that impresses the non-thinking type susceptible to irrational emotional stories.

Besides, it takes like about three seconds to realize what total BS it is. We all know plenty of examples of solid state amps that measure the same watts but yet one sounds more powerful. We also know the same for tube amps. If not all tube watts sound the same, and not all solid state watts sound the same, then what reason do we have to think all tube watts sound the same as all solid state watts? None.

This is what we like to call an airtight argument. No two ways around it. Tube watts and solid state watts are not created equal. The only question now is which tends to sound more powerful than the other? Tubes. Hands down. Not even close.

Another clue this is true, solid state people are always trying to explain away the fact tubes seem more powerful. They come up with all kinds of fancy theories. Being illogical, they do not even notice this is all very much beside the point. Nobody ever said tube watts measure greater. That would be absurd. What we say is they give the distinct impression of being more powerful. No amount of "explaining away" will ever change that.

Yet they keep on, like the Energizer Bunny, equally irrational, they keep going, and going....

two things really… Distortion amount and order AND output transformers….

Not a logic problem at all.

Here is an interesting read!
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/could-an-old-school-tube-amp-make-the-music-you-love-sound...