Tube amps and a Stradivarius

Triodes are more linear than transistors, which can also make them sound more realistic than solid state

Do you have any articles to back this up, everyone would agree tube sound is more pleasent but any info looking at input and output through a tube as being more accurate than high quality transistors.

Here is an interesting article that kinda supports your view, but looking at input then output with quality transistors there is really no comparison. 

 

Try using transistors without feedback and see what happens.

"Also if you think tube amps are more accurate you are simply fooling yourself."

You have very strong opinions about tubes, considering that you seem to have ZERO stated knowledge on such.

Also, your OT premise is laughable, IMO.

DeKay

All I know is tubes have sounded better than SS amps to me so far.

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You are right, a designer must use feedback that is always a compromise but transistors are still more accurate (don’t sound better) than tubes if you look at them on a scope. Another fare worse aspect is how transistors distort when clipped they sound awful but tubes sound smooth and forgiving. Audiophiles use underpowered amps in general, it takes a lot of power to produce loud sounds from some of our big not so efficient speakers. Tube amps are always way lower power than ss amps but because of the nice distortion it doesn’t matter as much. But physics is physics it takes a certon amount of power to produce a high volume from the speaker and it is very rare that tube amps have even close to enough power in fact it is the exception that even ss amps have enough power to produce movie theater volumes at home. By the way even golden ears have a hard time hearing <15% distortion at high volumes.