Can someone please give me more descriptive adjectives to better-define the term 'honey colored' as it relates to tube (or SS) amps? And what are some widely-accepted examples of said honey colored tube amps?
I'd go back a little farther and say more like vintage Fisher or Marantz tube gear.Slightly rolled off frequency extremes with a mid-range bump. Very listenable.
My guess is that it's the low order harmonics of (most) tube amps (rather than any roll-off per se) that give them that golden, velvety, sepia-tinted glow.
(Most) solid state amps exhibit the opposite, nasty grating sound of high order harmonics, odd-order harmonics and crossover distortion.
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