On Dec 21, 8:41*am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:33:03 -0800 (PST), jamesgangnc

wrote:
And there's what is wrong with tube amps. *Tubes are fundamentally
voltage amplifiers while speakers are current devices. *To solve this
mismatch any tube amp has to have a big honking transformer in between
the output circuit and the speaker.

Blah, blah, blah.

Anybody and everybody with a smidgen of listening ability agrees that
transformer/tube nexus is the best quality listening experience -
there is nothing in the digital world that can match it.

Real men live in the analog world. *:)

All quality power amps are still analog. And they're still class a or
class ab. That's got nothing to do with the tube/transistor debate.
No one would argue with the fact that the class d switching amps kids
are putting in cars have terrible specs and terrible sound. Digital
is how you store your music and if you're still using analog storage
then you're just stupid.

And some of the tube purests are bi-amping these days and running a
transistor amp for the lows. I won't argue that a lot of people
prefer the warmer sound produced by tube amps. But tube amps have
problems with the lows, it's the physics of the output transformer and
that's just unavoidable. If all you ever listen to is elevator music
predominately between 1khz and 10khz then tube amps are fine. But
you try to push any amount of 20hz through a tube amp and you're going
to run into transformer saturation. When the rest of your signal is
riding on top of that 20hz then it gets impacted as well.