Tubes.....and the Jerks that use them.

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

n00b //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

n00b //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif

Beat I usually think what you say is pretty funny or interesting but you are just being an idiot in this thread... No offence or anything...

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

I'm just joshing you //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

...and maybe you need to re-read the original post. This whole thread was meant to have a tongue-in-cheek attitude //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[PenguinsAudio 10+ year member]

Tube amps, good for heating up the garage when jaming in the winter.

and hey, my tube amp is, god i dont even know how old, ive had it for 5 years and never had to replace anything. they are built like tanks. but some old soild state stuff i got flotin around....dont work no more.

not to say tubes are better but they do have their uses, as does SS

 

[azbass 5,000+ posts]

i love people getting mad.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

I'm just joshing you //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif
...and maybe you need to re-read the original post. This whole thread was meant to have a tongue-in-cheek attitude //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I realize that, but damn man you need to come up wiht some better material... n00b is too worn out.... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Fine! Let me go find some white papers on the effects that a t00b amps raised noise floor will have on the dynamic integrity of a faithfully reproduced analog recording.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Hehe.... Don't get you undies in a knot man....

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

Tube amps, good for heating up the garage when jaming in the winter.
and hey, my tube amp is, god i dont even know how old, ive had it for 5 years and never had to replace anything. they are built like tanks. but some old soild state stuff i got flotin around....dont work no more.

not to say tubes are better but they do have their uses, as does SS

I think that's the most useful post out of anyone that's joined this year...congrats //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I saw this kit...

http://www.bottlehead.com/et/adobespc/paramourII/paramourII.htm

$699 bucks for 1.5W, I have much to learn I suppose.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Tube amps are extremely expensice to build and even more expensive to sell. It's not that they natually are worth over $200 / watt, it's just the cost involved in putting them together and that SS amps don't sound at all like tube amps IMO.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Tube amps are extremely expensice to build and even more expensive to sell. It's not that they natually are worth over $200 / watt, it's just the cost involved in putting them together and that SS amps don't sound at all like tube amps IMO.

I see. I have never actually seen a tube amp in real life. I have seen a tubes in old TV though. It was many tubes.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

It's the cost of the transformers, basically...

Anytime you have an audio signal that passes through a transformer, that's going to be the limiting factor in the bandwidth, and single ended amps like the ones you linked to require air gapped output transformers; cheaper iron core ones will kill any chance of having a flat frequency response. And the power transformer needs to be sized to provide 100% rated power, all the time, every time the amp is on. It's definitely not an efficient way to make noise //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Push pull amps don't demand as much, because they're operating in Class AB and split the power demands between two or more tubes.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/word.gif.64b12e39f936af3b4fff38a1c0bd0244.gif x-formers are very important. You'd love the one in my Carver amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Jim... I forget what Tubes do you run in that amp?