Amp/Preamp Asylum: FWIW, the old tubes vs transistors debate.... by Ralph Looking for a new Amp or Preamp? If you're after tubes, post over here.

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Posted by Ralph (M ) on June 29, 2012 at 09:43:16

In Reply to: RE: yes and no. posted by Sunya on June 29, 2012 at 09:29:23:

IMO has more to do with feedback than it does the devices, although I can safely say its *easier* to do it with tubes than transistors, that is not the same as saying that you can't do it with transistors. You can.

And this coming from one who arguably makes the 'most tube' amplifiers on the planet.

However, just to be clear, the differences in odd-ordered harmonic content I am talking about need only be a few 100ths of a percent to be audible.

More to the point though the big deal is understanding human hearing perceptual rules, and then building equipment that follows *those* rules rather than the rather arbitrary 'look good on paper' rules that we have now. I am sure any audiophile will agree that it is our ears that are the most important thing in audio. So I argue for a pragmatic approach where the stereo follows as closely as possible the human perceptual rules- if it does that who cares what it looks like on paper- that is secondary (I like it to look good on paper too but I won't push it if that messes with the sound, which is what feedback *generally* does).

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