[Audio_Empire]

In article ,
Barkingspyder wrote:

On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:02:36 AM UTC-7, Howard Davis wrote:
A direct-coupled solid state amp, whether class D or AB, is best for
driving

a subwoofer.



I avoid Behringer products because this company is notorious for copying
the

designs of existing products, cheapening them, and selling them at a lower

price than the originals.



A tube amp for a subwoofer? FORGET ABOUT IT!

No practical tube-based amp has the necessary low frequency power bandwidth

to function down to 16Hz or lower as well as it does in the midrange and

high end.

Don't know of anybody who said anything about a tube amp for a subwoofer.
Tubes are great for guitar amps after that I have no use for them.

They can be great for GP hi-fi amps too, but they are a terrible value
compared with solid-state amps. In fact to get a tube amp that is as
neutral as a good solid-state amplifier you would have to pay a LOT more
than the cost of an SS equivalent. Even then you're likely to have quite
a bit less power. But make no mistake, a VTL Siegfried, or an Audio
Research REFERENCE 750 tube amp (to name but two) is every bit as
neutral as a the best SS designs, even if they are pricey (the VTL
Siegfried II is $65,000 a pair, and a pair of Audio Research REF-750's
is about $90,000. Decent solid state amps of the same power as these
above mentioned tube amps can be had for less than 1/10 of those prices.