I have tried a few "tube emulator" plugins and my problem with them is that all of them seem to be compressors in nature so whenever you turn up the dials that are meant to give off the tube sound the sound often distorts in an undesirable way when the music you are listening to is close to...

I should have clarified, by plugin I mean a computer plugin. This is assuming a person is using their computer as their source and the plugin is being run at the same time through the program thats playing the music or as core audio.

Many say tube sound is nothing more than EQ and designer coloration, if this is the case would it be possible to exactly replicate tube sound through the use of a plugin?

Hi there, I believe this is my first post ever on headfi. I have a 2.1 setup which I'm content with, but I've been tempted to impart "tube" sound onto it. I fully realize that generally amps are transparent and any audible differences between them are done by the designer as seen by the workings...