In Reply to: Do you prefer the "background silence" of SS/Digital, or the that of Tubes/Analog? posted by genungo on April 21, 2012 at 09:34:22:
... It is hard enough to describe audio as it is without using paradoxical descripts.
Something is either silent or it isn’t.
Depending on one’s reference or parameters it could be said no amp is silent when it is powered up. However the noise it makes may very well not be audible to human hearing.
I believe amps sound different. I believe most amps seem to playback recordings differently, ranging from very subtle to profound.
Given there are so many different types of tube amps & different types of SS amps I’m not sure any meaningful blanket descripts/comparisons can be made.
There seems to be no consensus on what ‘most’ folks actually like to hear from an amp or even what they hear.
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Follow Ups
- Surely you mean background “noise”? … - three_sox 19:26:10 04/21/12 (3)
- Could be. - genungo 20:00:12 04/21/12 (2)
- I don’t disagree with any of that … - three_sox 20:10:29 04/21/12 (1)
- Agreed (nt. - genungo 20:14:00 04/21/12 (0)