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In Reply to: RE: "I use valve amplifiers, very recommended." ... posted by andyr on May 06, 2015 at 16:51:55
Andyr,
Obviously you are in a different leagy, budgetwise.
My response to the SMG-a owner was meant to complement his vieuw with my "budget" system.
I tried various solid state amp's but returned to valves since 1978 and never looked back. Of course there are solid state amp's with good quality but imh opinion will never surpass a good valve amp regarding crossoverdistortion and transient intermdulation distortion, both inherent to solid state amp's because of the necessary huge negative feedback and class B or AB (mostly first milliwatt class A, so virtually class B.)
A neighbour of mine has a Musical Fidelity class A amplifier solid state but I still hear the stressed sound of heavy negative feedback. Very expensive besides and my valve amp is cheap,and even betters a class A solid state.
If you are happy with your gear: congratulations and I wish you happy listening without constantly thinking about upgrading. Beware of lousy CD's or vinyl with to much dynamic compression, alway's keep some good favorite recordings as reference to set your mind at ease. I know to many people constantly upgrading, tweaking, buying new stuff not realizing it is the CD/vinyl that sucks.
Follow Ups:
You talk like you've been stuck in a time warp for 37 years. :)
Solid-state amplifier technology has come a long way since then.
TIM and crossover distortion were essentially eliminated from well-designed solid-state amplifiers many years ago.
Do some reading, get yourself out of ostrich mode.
Cheers,
Dave.
Davey,
I'm not going to read anything because I know everything.
Many hifi books, magazines, advertisements just sell bullshitstory's.
I use my ears and that's why I still use valves, simple, best sound possible, no crossover/TIM/noise/large amounts of feedback.
I congratulate everybody who finds good solidstate gear and enjoy it. I never found it for a reasonable price.
The major setback's in sound/ "high Fidelity" in my opinion:
Stereo-quadrophonia-CD-Surround-DVD-transistoramp's-opamp's.
Stereo and multichannel is just a special effect, for me annoying because I'm a mono fan, good dynamics, earpleasing, no irritating phase effects, no combfiltereffects with 1 loudspeaker.
I totally agree that a good valve amp is magic ... however, not all ss amps use lots of NFB. :-))
I've used AKSA ss amps for many years, for several reasons:
1. I like my active Maggies but for WAF reasons, need to use ss monoblocs.
2. I can leave them on 24x7, so don't have to wait for 'warm up'.
3. the designer carefully engineers his amps to have:
** low NFB
** H2 higher than all other harmonic distortions, with the distortion profile monotonically decreasing.
Regards,
Andy
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