Willie2
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Uncle Erik- As always you are an island of sanity. Besides tubes look really cool!
The Audio Critic is my hero.
The Audio Critic is my hero.
the other thing is, that i have never read a amp review where the reviewer said that a solid state amp truly captured a tube sound. they will say it sounds a little warm and "kind of like a tube amp" but never completely.. now maybe that's b/c the amp makers simply choose not to create that sound, but i do wonder if a SS amp can REALLY reproduce a tube sound completely.
^ while i am not saying i dont believe you can make a SS amp truly sound tubey, i will say that in my own experience no amount of EQ can change a SS sound to Tube sound. whether it really is just distortion or not, EQ'ing is not the answer, at least not for me. its not just frequency response that changes. Again, maybe SS amps can be made to emulate tube sound really well. I dont deny its possibly, just never heard myself, or heard anyone comment to that effect.
^ while i am not saying i dont believe you can make a SS amp truly sound tubey, i will say that in my own experience no amount of EQ can change a SS sound to Tube sound. whether it really is just distortion or not, EQ'ing is not the answer, at least not for me. its not just frequency response that changes. Again, maybe SS amps can be made to emulate tube sound really well. I dont deny its possibly, just never heard myself, or heard anyone comment to that effect.
Try to find replacement chips for one of Carver's old amps.
Here it is for you:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/carver-challenge
Straight from the people who are more or less religiously opposed to this sort of thing happening. Imagine Bob doing a null test on cable...
Heh.
It would be interesting to have seen whether the two amps continued to perform identically with different sets of speakers.