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In Reply to: I'm not at all sorry posted by madisonears on July 19, 2015 at 22:09:44:
"Oh, I've heard how good tubes can sound, and my VK-60's made some pretty sweet music"
Ah, so they didn't suck!! Just sucked a lot of power...like I said, I can believe that. But if you go with Class A SS amps they are also amps that "sucks".
"with less distortion, and it will always sound exactly the same and not fail for probably 20 years"
What does that mean "with less distortion"?? Did you find the BATs to sound distorted?? You just said above that they made some pretty sweet music. If you mean on an oscilloscope I would ask you how is that relevant to your listening experience?? Does it give you a security blanket to know that you have only .001% THD even if it doesn't sound as good (despite what you tell yourself?) Parts age in SS amps to and they for sure change sound over time...as to failure...I have seen just as many dead SS amps as tube amps and the SS amps are harder to repair.
Your post is a model of self-contradiction and self-deception.
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- RE: I'm not at all sorry - morricab 01:59:37 07/20/15 (53)
- No contradiction or deception here - madisonears 12:40:18 07/20/15 (50)
- RE: No contradiction or deception here - morricab 13:22:48 07/20/15 (2)
- RE: No contradiction or deception here - madisonears 19:15:28 07/20/15 (1)
- RE: No contradiction or deception here - morricab 02:40:37 07/21/15 (0)
- Did your BAT amps really... - E-Stat 12:47:49 07/20/15 (46)
- RE: Did your BAT amps really... - madisonears 18:55:23 07/20/15 (45)
- Hmmm - E-Stat 20:37:13 07/20/15 (44)
- $$$$$ - madisonears 22:02:03 07/20/15 (43)
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- I'm changing my opnion - madisonears 10:55:13 07/22/15 (39)
- Alrighty then - E-Stat 17:35:46 07/22/15 (30)
- some boring philosophy concerning audio - madisonears 18:52:48 07/22/15 (29)
- RE: some boring philosophy concerning audio - E-Stat 20:19:07 07/22/15 (28)
- correct on all counts - madisonears 22:33:37 07/22/15 (27)
- RE: correct on all counts - E-Stat 05:38:32 07/23/15 (7)
- so it's come to this - madisonears 10:26:43 07/23/15 (6)
- RE: so it's come to this, PSU stiffness...... - A.Wayne 12:02:45 07/23/15 (0)
- So what do you really think? :) - E-Stat 10:41:45 07/23/15 (4)
- RE: So what do you really think? :) - madisonears 12:13:00 07/23/15 (3)
- RE: So what do you really think? :) - E-Stat 12:25:13 07/23/15 (2)
- I think you should hear one before dismissing it - madisonears 12:41:45 07/23/15 (1)
- RE: I think you should hear one before dismissing it - E-Stat 12:52:09 07/23/15 (0)
- RE: correct on all counts - morricab 01:35:05 07/23/15 (18)
- RE: correct on all counts - Tidycat1 20:56:05 07/24/15 (1)
- RE: correct on all counts and what about Mel - A.Wayne 03:36:34 07/25/15 (0)
- incorrect on all counts - madisonears 10:22:38 07/23/15 (14)
- "You seem to be a real snob and a class A jerk" - that's nice. How about this: - carcass93 12:32:55 07/24/15 (1)
- Thanks, but no thanks - madisonears 18:14:58 07/24/15 (0)
- RE: incorrect on all counts - morricab 04:43:31 07/24/15 (5)
- RE: incorrect on all counts - madisonears 09:36:36 07/24/15 (4)
- RE: incorrect on all counts - morricab 14:59:20 07/25/15 (3)
- RE: incorrect on all counts - A.Wayne 07:10:27 07/26/15 (2)
- RE: incorrect on all counts - morricab 11:41:07 07/26/15 (0)
- RE: "I know more than a few tooby guys using chip amps now on their Horns" - rick_m 07:36:15 07/26/15 (0)
- That's pretty funny! - E-Stat 10:56:06 07/23/15 (5)
- That's pretty absurd - madisonears 12:29:55 07/23/15 (4)
- RE: That's pretty absurd, more than one road to audio Babylon - A.Wayne 04:44:27 07/24/15 (0)
- Ab adsurdum indeed! - E-Stat 12:40:56 07/23/15 (2)
- nothing more to say - madisonears 12:50:10 07/23/15 (1)
- "I specifically used the word implementation." - E-Stat 13:03:45 07/23/15 (0)
- RE: correct on all counts - A.Wayne 04:31:18 07/23/15 (0)
- RE: I'm changing my opnion - A.Wayne 11:58:54 07/22/15 (7)
- RE: I'm changing my opnion - madisonears 18:56:10 07/22/15 (6)
- RE: I'm changing my opnion, well kinda , maybe ..... - A.Wayne 19:34:13 07/22/15 (5)
- RE: I'm changing my opnion, well kinda , maybe ..... - madisonears 22:52:11 07/22/15 (4)
- RE: I'm changing my opnion, well kinda , maybe ..... - A.Wayne 04:46:26 07/23/15 (3)
- Thanks, I needed that - madisonears 12:07:03 07/23/15 (2)
- RE: Thanks, I needed that - A.Wayne 04:30:46 07/24/15 (1)
- RE: Audire was good stuff , Julius was the man .... - A.Wayne 04:38:54 07/24/15 (0)
- Got that right - airtime 06:30:49 07/20/15 (1)
- RE: Got that right - morricab 07:02:27 07/20/15 (0)