[sdiy] now on to tubes

[anthony]

> Some of them are essentially the same guts as in the old favorites such as
> 6L6 - just with a top cap. Anyway, non-linearities are part of what gives
> tube amps their so called tube sound.

I thought about that as I wrote that. The nice 2nd order distortion of say a 
single-ended amp is a nonlinearity sure. Is it too simple to say even 
harmonics = good, odd harmonics = bad? (I think I read somewhere once that 
knocking out the 3rd harmonic and leaving in the evens and the rest of the 
odds sounded good. Could just be because their magnitude is much less. Like 
I really like how a 33% duty-cycle squarewave sounds, but not so much the 
regular squarewave.) That's what I was thinking of. But that would be more a 
matter of topology I'd think.




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