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Can one have too many tube components in a system?

Especially if one has sensitive speakers? For myself with ZU Omen defs, I have to keep an eye on the gain of the amps I choose since my BHK runs tubes. If gain is too high, tube hiss becomes an issue. However, I see people with tubed amp, tube pre, tubed phono pre, tubed dac......doesn't the tube his (just like tape hiss every time you copy a tape over and over) intensify with every component? Or to pull this off one needs less efficient speakers?

aberyclark
fatdaddy2
387 posts
 

Only if you have to strip down to your undershorts and turn on a fan to stay in the same room with them during the winter...

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curiousjim
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I have two systems. One is all tube and one is SS.

The tube system is in a basement bedroom and by the time the first album is finished, the room is comfy warm😄.

Oh and it’s dead quiet.

JD

secretguy
1,718 posts
 

The tube system is in a basement bedroom and by the time the first album is finished, the room is comfy warm😄. 
 

I hear you. That's why I'm going back to SS.

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wturkey
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Welcome to Audiogon where everyone’s tube system is perfectly dead quiet……sans that Clark character. Lol

ebm
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Maybe 2 max.

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