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"the barefoot sage" wrote in message
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1. tube amps
High output impedance, grossly over priced, distortion devices

2. harsh sounding amps that give me a headache (solid state)
Accurate, low output impedance low distortion devices.

I have even heard that some people will pay more than $200 for a solid
state amp?

crazy!!
Only the ones that aren't smart enough to purchase a Behringer A500
160wpc Signature amp for $179.99.

I have Berry speakers, the B2030A's. They rock, but only for production
purposes. They sound crisp, sharp, detailed, but they lack that music that
I want to hear. Very loud they are, but not so nice to hear. They rock my
world and make my neighbors complain but do not rock my soul.

Tube amps are not necessarily distortion generators- a properly designed
amp will be flat and juicy.

Possible, but there seems to be these SET thingies.

Get back to your remedial electronics- it's all
about voltage and the power supply. I don't hear any egregious distortion
with any old broken down tube amp that has a decent supply and good
connections to the rails.

Part of the attraction to tube amps, is that when they clip, they do it in a
way that is much less harsh sounding than a SS amp. This is because tubes
driven to clipping produce sine waves that still look like sine waves. SS
amps by comparison just chop off the top and bottom of the wave, result,
sounds like hell. Fortunately, SS power is much cheaper and more reliable.

When the juice is there, the sound is there. Just
because there are models that don't have the good design required, doesn't
mean that all tube amps are bad.

I would never say all are bad, but their cost vs. performance ration is not
good, and there are many really expensive ones that are just awful. WAVAC.

What do you think guitars play through?

That's different, that's for making music not playing it back. Thye use the
distortion produced by tubes being clipped to get a particular kind of
sound. If you want to hear it exactly as the guitarist played it, it's
better to do it with SS.

Mostly tube stuff. Tubes will be around for many years. In fact they have
a great use in the scientific world, in the form of photon collectors.
Tubes are going to be around for many years to come, and you would be well
advised to get on board with thermionic technology.

And that's all I have to say about that. ;-)
Enjoy what you like.