[sdiy] power amp circuit

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Dear Uncle Eric,

You make me remember the book "Fahrenheit 451", where in the end, the people
who love literature take upon themselves the tasks of memorizing a book each
for posterity.

In some ways, SDIY is like that.

metasonix <metasonix at earthlink.net> wrote:
>At 09:34 AM 8/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
>>I read that a 50W tube amp is louder than a 50W solid state amp.
>
>Ah, you ask so little....basically, IN GENERAL it's the fact that the
>AVERAGE tube
>amp circuit uses little or no feedback. So its clipping characteristic is
>more rounded, allowing you to drive it harder without the sound becoming
>unpleasantly distorted with lots of very high-order harmonics. Virtually all
>solid-state amps use a LOT of negative feedback, giving them very unpleasent
>sounding clipping effects. So, for a tube and transistor amp with very similar
>ratings and similar power-supply capacity, the tube amp can just be pushed
>harder without sounding bad.
>
>>Unfortunately, I forget the source of this article.
>
>So do I. It will be difficult to "prove". This is why I end up in arguments
>with old-fart engineers, they keep demanding to see extensive peer-reviewed
>documentation of things about tubes I tell them. Such does not exist,
>because tubes are DEAD TECHNOLOGY, and why would anyone want to
>study them?.....
>
>
>
>uncle eric
>metasonix.com
>

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