Generalised distinctions between tube and solid state amplifiers are meaningless - it totally depends on the particular amps being compared.
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I started with tubes growing up, than switched to SS ie Hafler pre and amps in the early eighties. While they worked great, there was something i was missing. Later in the eighties, I went back to tubes and have never left, well kinda. The rig downstairs is hybrid. The preamp and the amps are IC chip input with tube output and the main system is tube input and transistor output on both the preamp and amplifiers. |
@dynamiclinearity This is only true if the amp is unable to act as a Voltage source on the speaker in question. Many tube amps are perfectly capable of such a thing. You only need about 15dB of feedback to achieve that in many cases.
@stringreen That is on account of how the amps in question make distortion. Once you understand that, its then possible to design a solid state amp (including class D) that doesn’t sound bright. |
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