Charles1dad,
I want to avoid tubes for a few reasons.
1 they are inconvenient.
2 they are inefficient.
3 they are expensive to replace.
4 they are noisey.
But some tube amps & tubes do sound excellent. I am with you regarding the SET organic & holistic sound. I cannot seem to be able to beat my 2w amp for sonic bliss.
The systems that have lasted the longest & provided the most joy for me have been with tube power amplification. With all the new technologies and ideas that have come in the many years since the tube was invented, I find it hard to believe tubes have not been superseded in all areas.
As for luck finding an SS amp that's capable of such virtues? I have found absolutely none...yet.
Can the SIT be the start of this road? By the sound of it probably not (pardon the pun).
Why has no one got an SET a logarithm that comes on a chip? You plug it into a highly efficient amp stage with earth shattering spec and job done. You decide if you want a 45 mesh sound or a 300b or whatever to drive any speaker?
Come on its the 21st century. Do I really have to continue with this 100 year old glassware from an age of steam engines?
I want to avoid tubes for a few reasons.
1 they are inconvenient.
2 they are inefficient.
3 they are expensive to replace.
4 they are noisey.
But some tube amps & tubes do sound excellent. I am with you regarding the SET organic & holistic sound. I cannot seem to be able to beat my 2w amp for sonic bliss.
The systems that have lasted the longest & provided the most joy for me have been with tube power amplification. With all the new technologies and ideas that have come in the many years since the tube was invented, I find it hard to believe tubes have not been superseded in all areas.
As for luck finding an SS amp that's capable of such virtues? I have found absolutely none...yet.
Can the SIT be the start of this road? By the sound of it probably not (pardon the pun).
Why has no one got an SET a logarithm that comes on a chip? You plug it into a highly efficient amp stage with earth shattering spec and job done. You decide if you want a 45 mesh sound or a 300b or whatever to drive any speaker?
Come on its the 21st century. Do I really have to continue with this 100 year old glassware from an age of steam engines?