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<blockquote data-quote="gckless" data-source="post: 8223301" data-attributes="member: 635756"><p>Yeah the VK isn't anything special with the stock tubes, but sounds pretty good if you throw some decent tubes in there. I've got Tung-sol preamp and Ruby 6L6 power tubes in there now, and I like it. And I don't think it's that they don't sound that great at lower volumes, it's just they sound much better and have that tube sound everyone expects when they are driven hard. And most of that sound comes from power tube compression and/or distortion. I had a Marshall hybrid at one point and couldn't really tell the difference except for the fact that I could see the single 12AX7 glowing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Exactly. Fortunately tubes are relatively cheap, and they make a pretty big difference. But I would still take tube with cheap tubes over solid state. I will say though, I have never heard a solid state amp that performs or reacts the same as a tube amp, at least a guitar amp. In home theater, it can be done most likely, as you are not pushing the power tubes to the same extremes as you are in a guitar amp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gckless, post: 8223301, member: 635756"] Yeah the VK isn't anything special with the stock tubes, but sounds pretty good if you throw some decent tubes in there. I've got Tung-sol preamp and Ruby 6L6 power tubes in there now, and I like it. And I don't think it's that they don't sound that great at lower volumes, it's just they sound much better and have that tube sound everyone expects when they are driven hard. And most of that sound comes from power tube compression and/or distortion. I had a Marshall hybrid at one point and couldn't really tell the difference except for the fact that I could see the single 12AX7 glowing. Exactly. Fortunately tubes are relatively cheap, and they make a pretty big difference. But I would still take tube with cheap tubes over solid state. I will say though, I have never heard a solid state amp that performs or reacts the same as a tube amp, at least a guitar amp. In home theater, it can be done most likely, as you are not pushing the power tubes to the same extremes as you are in a guitar amp. [/QUOTE]
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