In Reply to: The BIGGEST Lies Objectivists Tell About Subjectivists (Part 1) posted by thetubeguy1954 on March 9, 2007 at 07:57:46:
I have to admit I didn’t read your entire post so maybe I missed something. But I glanced through it and saw your listed specs and your questions. You seem to have made the oppositions point for them IMHO.You asked about slew rate. About the easiest answer I can give is that it is the speed of the amp. It is a measure of its transient response. Think of it as "maximum rate of change of an amplifier's output voltage with respect to its input voltage".
A long book could be written about this subject and how transistor amps stack up against tube amps. But I will throw a drop of blood in these shark-infested waters and quickly depart. The following is a cut and paste from Wikipedia (so bite them not me).
"Because tubes are significantly more linear than transistors, tube amplifiers do not need as much global negative feedback to achieve acceptable linearity. While large amounts of global negative feedback are effective for reducing total harmonic distortion (THD) at low frequencies, feedback has downsides such as reduced stability, reduced slew rate, reduced bandwidth, increased high-order distortion [citation needed], and artifacts such as asymmetrical slewing [citation needed]. In most commercial designs, little attention is paid to these problems, and designers simply attempt to achieve the lowest possible THD."
Russ
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Follow Ups
- Correct me but it does seem you are saying the quoted measurments are useless - Russ57 14:20:29 03/09/07 (6)
- The Correction - thetubeguy1954 05:43:23 03/12/07 (2)
- It's a shame the point has to be made to them, over and over. But we know already, they don't listen! nt - clarkjohnsen 11:00:58 03/12/07 (1)
- If we were like TG54, we'd take that literally rather than as rhetorical exaggeration. - Pat D 06:45:32 03/13/07 (0)
- Hey, you aren't Russ Hamm by any chance? nt - clarkjohnsen 11:32:26 03/11/07 (2)
- No(nt) - Russ57 05:45:03 03/13/07 (1)
- I knew that! (Mr. Hamm is sadly deceased.) But you sound quite like him. nt - clarkjohnsen 10:14:30 03/13/07 (0)