Almost a year....and my hatred still burns //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif
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Over 20 years ago I didn't understand all the claims behind tube amps, mainly
from guitar players. Until one day I talked to an engineer at work who played guitar and he clued me in on waveform distortion of tube vs. solid state. Eventually I figured it out and understand why musicians love the tube designs -> to create special effects by over driving tube amps.
For music playback, I'm in the neutral school, where the signal up to the speakers
is only altered by frequency response {as in EQ} or maybe add some delays, otherwise I was never interested in having my preamps or amplifiers adding
coloration in the form of distortion {whether percieved good or bad} to the loudspeaker. I want the speaker to give me the sound personality.
The root problem lies in the fact that most tube lovers don't understand what
is going on electricially, they just assume there is special magic going on
and thus they make these claims as they do on tube superiority. It's not superior,
it just has the potential to color the sound in a way they like.
