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In Reply to: RE: Tube amp clipping is akin to compression...... posted by horn kid on September 18, 2016 at 13:55:19
There's no 170W amp that sounds as good as the best 20W amps.
Duh.
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That's what the guy who does not have the big tiodes with single transmitter tubes will always say.
You don't know what's better, or what it will sound like, until you hear it.
If you owned a bunch of small AND big ones you would not have the agenda you do. I have many of small and big ones. I have no agenda. The big ones, if they are really good, will show you what your small ones don't do.
So much of audio is "if I don't own it then it can't be as good as what I do own".
Agenda? Please elaborate, oh mind reader.
I've owned at least 50 SET amps. Probably more. At least 15 of the 211/845/805 variety.
What's your 170W SET?
Why do you think you need that much power? What kind of volumes do you listen at, in what size room, and how's your hearing these days?
I did not say I or anyone NEEDS large power, but I am saying that with a really good sounding SET amplifier that is also more powerful than the typical SET there can be advantages. Big room, but I sit from 4 to 11 feet from the speakers depending on my mood. Typically 82 db peaks, once in a great while I'll boost it to 100 for a minute, but the advantages in dynamics and bass control, as well as in unstrained and unrestrained sound of the mids, is evident at 82db.
Single tube GM100 and single tube QB5 are the configurations I'm talking about for the high powered amps. Other SET amps on hand use 845 (several amps), 45, 300b, 211, 2a3 .......way too many amps, really.
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