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Re: Maybe you'd prefer...


"LOL! As opposed to the distortion inherent in transitor sound?
That statement sounds like something Aczel would say."

-- Yes.

Suggest you read the article on "valve sound" available online at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_sound. - Note the paragraph that begins: "In particular, it turns out that the "warmth" and "richness" typically associated with "valve sound" is DUE TO SIGNIFICANT LEVELS OF 2ND ORER DISTORION, typically coming from a single ended (and thus by definition class A) SE stage, often the output stage. This being a classic tube amp design."

I'm not saying that SS doesn't have it's own forms of distortion, merely that the preference for tubes may relate to a preference for the "warmth and richness" resulting from such 2nd order distortion.

Jim


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