Do vacuum tube amplifiers really sound best?
The high-end audio critics seem to think so.
I would like some "real world" opinions.
2006-10-02 14:55:19 · 2 answers · asked by dogpye5 3 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
They still use them for Marshall guitar amps, can't get much more real world than that. I can't help thinking that tapes and records sound better than CD 'remasters' as well, after all the human brain works by analogue processing not digital.
2006-10-02 14:59:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Opinions about that are totally subjective.
Personally, having experienced all kinds of tube amps, I find that amps with high impedance solid state circuits are every bit as good. And the additional advantage of never having any hum from speakers, which always was a big problem (I imagine they use DC heaters on the cathodes today), I think that this 'tubes are better' really is more affectation than fact.
Of course one could set up a test, where these people would have to make a side by side comparison between tube and solid state and that would tell the story. Like a Coke versus Pepsi test.
And digital versus analog just comes out to a high enough sampling rate.
2006-10-02 14:57:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋