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Does SS cost more than HS for superior sound?


I sure hope I’m saying this right… I may be off the mark a bit….. Money talks… money matters as well, perhaps now more so than ever before.

For a while now I’ve been hearing or keep hearing, and in part am finding out for myself by acquiring this amp and that here and there, in order to obtain an equivalancy in audio refinement a SS amp will cost far more than will a tube amp when seeking out a natural, organic, or more dense and lifelike sounding presentation.

To me it seems less expensive a task to acquire these elements with tube amps and preamps, than with the likewise solid state products.

EX could be one will find far more bright sounding SS amps than one will find bright sounding tube amps, indicating extension isn’t all it could be in the world of sand only products.

I have heard repeatedly solid state appliances that are cool, dry, and uninvolving yet quite expensive.

I’ve not heard all of those characteristics in tube powered devices, although I have heard not long ago very pricey tube amps I simply wouldn’t buy with someone else’ money…. Yet they weren’t dry or lifeless, but they didn’t captivate.

Also I’ve never heard a tube preamp or amp that was prone to listener fatigue.

OR… could this possibly be more a matter of preferential requirements, and merely the age old subject of taste?
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tpreaves
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No fooling Sparky.
Duh

It was a play on words

Hollow/Howell

Get it?

How about Thick as a Brick?
Heard that one?

Yes,I got it.Sorry,I didn't realize no one else except you could make a funny.
How about asshole,I'm sure you're familiar with that!!
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Mapman
Thanks.. as always, good thoughts.

jallen
agreed.

That’s looking more and more like my particular issue… eyes free operation with sort of high eff speakers.

Tpreaves
It’s difficult for us mere mortals to be as enlightened as brother Bill is… or as comedic and endearing.

Tvad
Here’s another term to boggle Google with… “sand amplification” check out how many of those 1.6 Gigazillion results match up. Sheeshhh.

(another one is coming up soon, so keep the Google engine handy)

Were it put like this things might make more sense even to the sensless…

“Does SS cost more for quality sound with more eff speakers to recreate?”

… as that looks like a case for a better debate.

Otherwise it’s as was said by a few that the amp + speaker connection is key and that Sand fits most often best with lesser eff units, and tubes apply best to mo’ eff squeakers.

Fine. Got it. Got it a long time ago in fact… so how about now. How about applying sand amps instead of hollow state.to those squeakers above the Mendosa line, of say, 91 - 92db?

For the sports trivia challenged, the Mendoza line is a .250 batting average… wherein one can still make millions in MLB, but is a minimal gbatting production stat for most all players other than pitchers.

Sometimes I forget that some folks sneer and jeer at those things they aren’t familiar with immediately as they lack an open mind or wider spread exp than purely audio interests.
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