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RE: You are incorrect.

I'm not going to debate a possible difference in sound between single triode tubes and paralleled section or paralleled separate tubes. People claim they hear all kinds of subtle differences between this that and the other thing.

I just object to calling the inferior sonic quality "smear". That implies some kind of time based latency across paralleled sections giving rise to the music signal that is different from a pure signal. This makes little sense if you know that the electrons involved in carrying the audio signals are moving close to the speed of light, and hence any time discrepancy from taking one different, but very very short path, is of no consequence to the, relatively, very slow audio signal that eventually is produced in your speakers or headphones. Some people tried to use the same logic with feedback loops and time smear was largely debunked as a source of the lesser quality.

I guess same thing with the filament structure. One might be better than an other, but its not due to a lack of time delay effect because of its symmetry.


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