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<blockquote data-quote="thylantyr" data-source="post: 2233168" data-attributes="member: 560358">First post of this thread -&amp;gt; //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gifOver 20 years ago I didn&#039;t understand all the claims behind tube amps, mainlyfrom 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 -&amp;gt; to create special effects by over driving tube amps.For music playback, I&#039;m in the neutral school, where the signal up to the speakersis only altered by frequency response {as in EQ} or maybe add some delays, otherwise I was never interested in having my preamps or amplifiers addingcoloration 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&#039;t understand whatis going on electricially, they just assume there is special magic going onand thus they make these claims as they do on tube superiority. It&#039;s not superior,it just has the potential to color the sound in a way they like.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thylantyr, post: 2233168, member: 560358"] First post of this thread -> [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif[/IMG] 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. [/QUOTE]

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