RE: Does it really sound better?

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Posted by josh358 (P) on February 9, 2010 at 18:10:31

In Reply to: RE: Does it really sound better? posted by ahendler on January 31, 2010 at 05:39:53:

Depends on the measurements. If you measure the wrong things, the measurements will be meaningless. Forex, tubes have more graceful overload characteristics than transistors and a less offensive spectrum of harmonic distortion. And back then, the importance of open loop performance wasn't understood. So you had transient distortion in solid state amps that used a lot of negative feedback to compensate for the high nonlinearity of transistors. So merely providing power and overall distortion figures won't give you an accurate indication of how a tube and transistor amp will compare sonically.

OTOH, measure the right things, and the measurements will correlate with what you hear. If that weren't the case, it would be impossible to design things, you need technical understanding to improve a circuit or a device, need to know what parameters to try improving.

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