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<blockquote data-quote="squeak9798" data-source="post: 1314942" data-attributes="member: 555320">Tubing the inputs only basically defeats the purpose of using tubes in the first place.&nbsp; Having the outputs tubed is essentially where that &quot;tube&quot; sound comes from.But, IMHO just go with a regular SS amp.&nbsp; A tube mainly excels over a SS amp when clipping, where the tube clips &quot;softly&quot; the SS amp creates a shit-ton of distortion that sounds horrible //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif&nbsp; Get an amp big enough as to avoid clipping, and in most instances you wouldn&#039;t be able to tell a whole hell of a lot of difference in a vehicle cruising down the highway at 70mph //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gifBut, that &quot;warm&quot; sound is nothing more than 2nd order distortion.......so the context of &quot;warm&quot; in the sense of tubes, and &quot;clean&quot; don&#039;t even really belong in the same sentence.&nbsp; That &quot;warm&quot; sound comes from having an unclean signal //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif</blockquote>

[QUOTE="squeak9798, post: 1314942, member: 555320"] Tubing the inputs only basically defeats the purpose of using tubes in the first place. Having the outputs tubed is essentially where that "tube" sound comes from. But, IMHO just go with a regular SS amp. A tube mainly excels over a SS amp when clipping, where the tube clips "softly" the SS amp creates a shit-ton of distortion that sounds horrible [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] Get an amp big enough as to avoid clipping, and in most instances you wouldn't be able to tell a whole hell of a lot of difference in a vehicle cruising down the highway at 70mph [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] But, that "warm" sound is nothing more than 2nd order distortion.......so the context of "warm" in the sense of tubes, and "clean" don't even really belong in the same sentence. That "warm" sound comes from having an unclean signal [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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