Tube amps are usually pretty heavily colored but in a good way, very little distortion in the sound with that much internal EQ done. My grandfather has a mcintosh tube amp/DAC for his sennhieser hd800s, no car audio setup can match that.
Planet had some tube amps. McIntosh does also.
It's all in the harmonics. Tube amps have loads of even order harmonics that add a singing vocal quality. Solid state can easily be designed to have almost no harmonics, which you'd think is better- except it can sound sterile in comparison. Tube amps compress quite a bit before clipping hard, and sound real nic in that compressed stage, and still musical into clipping because of the even harmonics. Solid state clips with lots of odd order harmonics, which sound dissonant to the ears, and not as musical. SS also clip suddenly, and ugly, unless loads of great care are employed to counteract.
That will never happen as there are not enough people with that kind of a budget to saturate the market. As you get closer and close to true hifi, the returns diminish with every extra dollar you spend. Cars are also not just parked in a quite area when listening, most of the listening is done while driving and I think that alone can almost nullify the difference between some amps.
For the record, he NEVER says "Fa" in the entire video.
It really is a question of psychoacoustics. Even if you find 2 people who have exactly the same hearing, their brain may perceive the sound differently and they will think it sounds completely different. Perception truly is reality when it comes to this. Besides that, people don't hear the same. If you have an individual that is less sensitive to a certain frequency range, their idea of the sound stage will be entirely different. For example, if those same frequencies "raise" the sound stage, they may think the sound stage is much lower.
I don't think so bud. If that was true the MS-8 would have to check everyone's hearing pre calibration.
That's weird. Should have kept that to yourself bud
Ok, I'm just going to say that my $50 DD Earbuds are better than my $400 Beats Pros. Didn't think they would be
Picture Craig butler telling you something you did was genius and stupid loud. You would grow ball hair
Then I'd have to shave my balls again.
$500??? Should have picked up some moulded IEM triples from 1964 ears...
2011 skull candy ink'd earbuds are pretty awesome at under $15 haha
Coworker had some. I want to say the V6.
Skull Candies!!?? NOOOOOOOooooooooo!
