DanielT

Because I like to color the music I listen to, I have always used valves with tone control. If I wanted transparent I might use a SS...

Heh heh, probably a lousy solution but it worked. Speaking of heat. You know how hot tubes get. Then imagine how hot it got inside that...

Never seen transformers stacked like that! I would expect both that the transformers would get a bit hot, (top one from the bottom one's...

Back in the 1960s, I used valves as they were more reliable than early SS amps, and even technically, were generally better. By the...

The brand of valve amp ( my one and only dalliance with valves) was so unreliable/fire hazard that if you left the room to make a cup of...

No. They can't be. A tube is just a three-terminal device that can be placed in a number of different circuit designs that can enable...

I like to listen to both personally. Kinda like having your cake and eating it. (Variety being the spice of life, and all that.) It's...

Kind of like soft focused portraits that have gone through a smoothing filter in post processing and maybe some selective colour...

Your DT990 600 has uneven impedance/frequency graph: Assuming your OTL amp has 90 ohm output impedance (a common value for a lot of...

It seems they sound more musical to you. And if you're satisfied with how they sound, that's what really matters. You seem to understand...

Best case scenario is a tube amp has no frequency response contouring at the output and will sound the same as a solid state...

When I hear an actual live musical performance that sounds "so romantic, warm, soft around the edges, and smooth, even syrupy" I'll get...

That, my friend, is the sound of gullibility. With a little hint of distortion.

One way to answer it is to measure or compare in a blind fashion. This helps you prove the difference is audible and gets to the idea...