The ups and downs of tube vs. SS...

kosst_amojan
Dear God.... That staid dogma about tubes Geoff just spouted is such obtuse nonsense! All this magical jazz people attribute to tubes has practically nothing to do with the tubes themselves. It’s far more a product of the topology. Plenty of solid state amps make that case.

Did somebody forget to take his smart pills? I never said I was talking about the tubes themselves, silly goose. I actually already made that very clear. Besides it was not (rpt not) dogma, anyway. I acknowledged that solid state has some strengths. It’s not all black and white in my world as it is in yours.

@geoffkait 

What? You make no sense. How do you see black and white in topology? 

I'm looking at a debate here where folks are going from 4, 5, or 6 gain stages with all kinds of feedback to 2 or 3 with very little and they're giving all the credit to the gain devices. It's really not. 

Solid state has relatively better THD numbers than tubes. OK, I’ll grant you that. Of course everybody and his brother knows THD doesn’t really mean anything. 🤡