Tubes Tubes

[Tom Baldwin]

I think the main "why" reason is because it generally sounds good. I think
most everyone admits that tube guitar amps "sound good". Maybe someone can
make a SS amp that sounds good too, but a <lot> of tube guitar amps sound
good. I can recall walking into my uncle's garage one day and hearing his
mono hifi system play as we talked. I can still recall how good it felt
listning to it. I asked what it was and found out it was a Scott tube amp. I
now own that amp.

As for the price issue. I just don't know. Think of the price of high end SS
equipment... Mark Levinson, Krell, Etc.. I think you can spend as much money
on SS as you can on tubes.

Please bear in mind I am not the designer type. I mostly just lurk here and
try to learn. It just seems that a lot of the tube equipment I have listened
to makes me feel good when I hear it. Thats all the reason I need.

Tom B.



----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Richter <grichter at execpc.com>
To: Paul Maddox <Paul.Maddox at unilever.com>; synthdiy
<synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Tubes Tubes


> Would someone be kind enough to explain why tube
> circuitry is preferable for audio over solid state?
> I realize this has probably been beat to death
> on ault.audio.hifi but is there a short explanation?