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In Reply to: RE: The very "best" tube amps - or, the ones I'd most like to own... posted by A.Wayne on October 23, 2014 at 11:48:05:
Generally I agree that both are on opposite sides of "true" sound but I don't agree that they are equal in their deficiency and this is because of human tolerance to different kinds of distortions is not equal. I would argue that the kinds of high order higher frequency distortion one encounters regularly with SS is more damaging to realism and long term listening pleasure. The biggest effect that the tube distortions seem to cause is a lack of apparent transparency and some tonal sameness that leads to somewhat boring sound.
The best of both minimize these traits but not to inexistence; however, I find that the best tube gear gets far closer to what I hear live with the right recordings than any SS. The colorations from SS are too damaging IMO.
For preamps, I have heard only one competitive SS preamp to the best tube designs...the Lyra Connisseur preamp. That is a good one. Otherwise, only tubes deliver SOTA preamp sound IMO. I haven't heard the SS preamp from Robert Koda though...
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