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In Reply to: tube instantaneous power v. solid state posted by LousyTourist on April 13, 2007 at 09:36:31:
When tubes are overdriven, they gradually clip; that is, they provide progressively less response for added input, kind of like a spring being overextended. When a transistor is overdriven, it just stops addding any further response; that's called hard clipping, and it sounds horrible. Tube clipping sounds nowhere near as bad as transistor clipping, and is thought to be why a tube watt sounds more powerful than a transistor watt. The instantaneous and sustained power issue that you mention I think would have more to do with power supply impedance and heating of solid state output devices.
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- Re: tube instantaneous power v. solid state - Lee Lipman 09:48:39 04/13/07 (1)
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