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RE: Distortion is distortion....

"If you like distortion, of any sort, that is your own personal preference, and you are talking about personal preference when you say some types of distortion or distributions of distortion are "better" than others. Since it is personal preference, you can't make generalizations about what is "best"."

-No, you are the one who likes distortion! That is why you like that hockey puck!

"And, just because an amp produces what some opine as "bad" distortion, it is meaningless in any case if it is below audibility, which it is in many high performance amplifiers."

-It is not inaudible, if it were, your puck would sound more like a SET!

"SETs may have some advantages, but truth to the signal is not one of them."

-A reasonably design SET is more truthful to the signal then anything SS!

"I'm not hearing anything harsh from my amp. And since the distortion it produces is at or below the threshold of audibility, it isn't coloring the sound like so many tube amps."

-You got it backwards kid, you are the one hearing distortion, your amplifier is the one colouring the sound in a negative way, not the SET!

A reasonably designed SET has less detrimental colourations then anything else, that is the point!
The "colouration" that some hacks claim to be from tube amps is actually the unmolested sounds coming from the source material!

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  • RE: Distortion is distortion.... - Garg0yle 08:26:00 09/19/15 (0)


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