Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better?
Yes tubes are more involved and require periodic maintenance. Hybrid tube components need not apply, these are really solid state.
Tubes are better for multiple reasons and yet the world and the trade prefers solid state. Those rare audio shops that are geared toward stereo listening and serious connoisseurs tend to Focus more on tubes. Those in business who like to improve volumes tend to offer solid state. All the YouTube channels looking to improve their business tend to be solid state. Maybe because tubes require much more expertise to sell, and there's lesser and lesser to go around. Solid state is more of a fast food commodity.
Tubes are difficult for businesses due to all the maintenance and complexity so you see it less often. Much much easier to sell hybrids or solid state.
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Does this apply mostly to the variants you’ve developed, or as well a more general direction with other, selective ranges of class D amplifiers? |
@phusis I can't speak for other class D amps although I've heard a few that are really quite good. Class D amps vary in sound more than from the worst to best tube amps. Some really can't be taken seriously. Some are really boring. And some are amazing. The amp we designed worked out to have a distortion signature that looks for all the world like a tube amp when you have it on the bench. The distortion of any amplifier is its 'sonic signature'. What so many people don't realize is how audible distortion really is since our ears assign tonality to all harmonics (that is after all how musical instruments sound unique too...). So if you have an amp that has a distortion signature that looks like that of another amp, it will sound like that other amp too. We were lucky in that the non-linearities that exist in our design tend to generate lower ordered harmonics. So very similar to a tube amp in this regard. Of course we have a lot lower distortion so the amp is more transparent. I sincerely doubt that we are the only ones to be able to do this!! So tube amps are on borrowed time. |
@atmasphere , do you have distortion measurements that you can share with us comparing your tube and class-D amplifiers? |
Nope. I asked you a simple question. You said many times that no one needed more than $500 in a system to have great sound. Now you’re saying something different. I’m asking you what’s changed. I was hoping you’d yes or no and then discuss why. Raising the issue of "mental problems" is interesting though. Funny that you went there. 2 minutes of searching:
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You only post to criticize me ...It seems to me guess why ? You question are to put an imagined contradiction in my posts.. You patronized me about my long posts whitout END..Because the same advice for 3 years is PATRONIZING someone it is no more a friendly advice...You go on even after i apologize.. And the last time i naively apologize and thank you ... Guess what you did : You s...t on me and my thread next minute..i will not apologize and thank you in the future ANYMORE if you did not change your way toward me.. What do you think i thought about your ACCUSATION of contradiction ? it was not an innocent and good faith question at all..Do you think i am an idiot ? Anyway it is ridiculous to assemble my quotes.. I will resume them by FACTS i stated in your selection and out of it for the last 3 years... : -- First i am completely satisfied and in heaven with my 600 bucks system for reasons i will not explain here anew ( the main reason is minimal satisfaction treshold is reached thanks to my optimization and diminushing returns) -- Second as audiophile i dream, i know what i do, and any system at any price can be improved and upgrade... It is not necessary even to explain why...It is RIDICULOUS to think that a 600 bucks system cannot be upgraded... The urge for upgrade is LOST... The upgrade exist ... I compute his cost... --- Third i already computed the price of my ultimate upgrade and the only one i will do; 15,000 bucks.. Then assembling out of context my posts to search for a supposed contradiction says more about you than about me... i spoke of mental health because ALL your last posts were of bad faith...No discussion... criticizing my number of words, and two post about my alleged contradiction...After three years of patronizing about my number of words.. ☺😊 In contrast with your behaviour i participated in your new thread and thank you for the idea... Perhaps it will inspire you to be FRIENDLY...
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