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In Reply to: RE: Actually no posted by Ralph on April 27, 2016 at 08:47:54
So why does SS gear reproduce recorded images better than toobs.? is it the wider bandwidth?
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Although this really isn't a tubes/transistor thread (like there's a shortage of those or something...).
Soundstage, generally speaking, has traditionally been a strength of tube amps over solid state.
The one thing about this is that tubes seem to make more low level detail- and ambient information is low level detail. The result can be, when this low level detail is removed, like the images are in greater stark contrast, which is because they are. However once you get used to the added ambient information surrounding each musical image, you realize that the tube amps are making a more 3D soundstage, instead of one with cardboard paste-ups.
I am exaggerating here of course- and struggling with the best way to explain what I hear.
Tube amps by definition don't always have less bandwidth. The limiting factor in most of them is the output transformer- the tubes themselves have no trouble making bandwidth (if that were the case, television would not have been possible in the 1950s and 60s). Our amps have no output transformer and so have much more bandwidth- both low and high.
Ralph :)
Apology for egging you on like that, i couldn't resist :) and yes toobies tend to do the image , halo around instruments better than most, good SS does it too, Spectral for eg..
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