Pat Farrell;255883 Wrote: > rajacat wrote:[color=blue] > Sure, its 'possible' to make tubes sounds like transistors, and vice > versa, but why bother? If you like tubes, get them. If you like solid > state, get them. >
To understand why valves sound better in some ways than solid state, and conversely. Research in that direction has led some designers (eg Hugh Dean at Aspen) to the design of a solid state amp that does not have the 'colorations' of valves yet, to the ears of guys that like valves, has their other desirable properties (musicality, fluidity and the other gush they go on about). Ask him what makes an amp sound good (and he has designed a god awful lot of them) and he will tell you he does not know. There are tons of possible circuit topologies to investigate and listen to. Me - I simply want an amp to disappear, but since the ear is a rather complex thing designing an amp to do that requires building and listening to it - not measuring distortion in a lab or dismissing ideas that may on the surface look like hooey. Thanks Bill -- bhobba ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhobba's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14889 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41756 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
