Sorry but that's a bastardization of the term "audiophile", audiophool may be more appropriate.
My apology but you will find the term used everywhere for some who refuse
I solved it with two systems!!Atta boy!
Don’t let the silicone monsters take your soul!
An audio pal of mine finally abandoned tubes after many years for the ease of solid state amps. I have to constantly remind him that now his system lacks
“midrange liquidity.”
Completely wrong analogy.
im doing a bunch of re organizing and im waiting on a 36" wide stand to come out of anodizing. its messy now but ignore the mess.
i get years of use on my tubes before they die out.No. In terms of "sound character", it is.
This is the blurb on the development of the Stereophile "simulated loudspeaker load": https://www.stereophile.com/content/real-life-measurements-page-2
This is what happens when a tube amp tried to drive that circuit: https://www.stereophile.com/content/air-tight-atm-1-2024-edition-power-amplifier-measurements
And it can get much worse: https://www.stereophile.com/content/zesto-bia-200-select-power-amplifier-measurements
These are what you hear when you listen to a normal, everyday speaker driven by a "boutique" tube amp. The dips in response at certain frequencies, coupled with the peaks in response at other frequencies can easily amount to a 2-or-3 dB relative difference.
That's going to be audible. It will sound "different". Not necessarily better or worse, but "different". Different from your solid-state amp, different from your friends' amps. The peaks will stand out as dominant. Your cognitive bias will kick into high gear, and those peaks will sound artificially as if they had "clarity".
But within a period of time, your brain will acclimate ... it will adjust. Then, the so-called "clarity" will lessen or disappear.
Then what? Time for new tubes? Time for a new amp? If you have vinyl, maybe time for a new cartridge?
How about getting a system that is as neutral as you can afford in the first place, and if you want frequency response deviations, do it with DSP. Then disable the DSP if there's a recording for which you find it less than useful.
Then you can concentrate on the MUSIC instead of the equipment!
Admit it you laughed
you have a ayon?
Different point.
i like how you can change out the power rect tube, phase tubes, preamp tubes and power tubes and it always sounds a bit different. i can get slightly more rounded off sounding tubes and softer tones with a whole set of specific combinations of tubes with some more musicality at lower volumes.....of i can load up very snappy and crisp sounding tubes with more brightness and shimmer and snare drum boom - with a whole different set of tubes. i mean sure you can use a eq with solid state but its only similar but not the same. same same, but not the same. this makes a huge difference when you start say with a phono tube section and making a selection for those, then you can select a preamp, and select a poweramp selection. this is like applying three finely tuned eqs in line that isnt always as easy to get that warmth with just applying a eq right before the poweramp.Different point.
The analogy was correct for the point I was actually making.
I was addressing the idea of somebody telling somebody else “ There’s a better way to do that. Why don’t you use it instead?”
In which such a suggestion seems to ignore what the person may be enjoying out of their chosen method.
So it’s like a photographer coming up to somebody sitting in front of an easel in the park, carefully painting a tree in front of her, and the photographer says “ If you want to capture the image of that tree why don’t you just take a photograph? It’s more accurate and less hassle.” (“and if you want, you can add a filter afterwards to get the effect you want.”)
Clearly that photographer is not taking into account what the painter is getting out of her chosen activity. Surely she knows about photographs, but has chosen to paint instead. It might not be as accurate, but putting her own bit of flourish on the image is part of the point. Or even if she was indulging in photo realistic painting, taking a photograph instead still wouldn’t fill all the things she gets out of painting. She likes using paint brushes, likes working with paints, the effort it takes to paint… some of the very features the photographer may find a time-consuming hassle the painter enjoys.
In other words, individuals like doing things different ways.
This is what I’ve had to point out many times when people keep suggesting “ why don’t you just use a fully neutral system and add an equalizer or some sort of DSP plug-in?”
Because that’s not the same experience as what I get out of using a tube amp.
when i see someone say to go solid state and justy use a eq....Different point.
The analogy was correct for the point I was actually making.
I was addressing the idea of somebody telling somebody else “ There’s a better way to do that. Why don’t you use it instead?”
In which such a suggestion seems to ignore what the person may be enjoying out of their chosen method.
So it’s like a photographer coming up to somebody sitting in front of an easel in the park, carefully painting a tree in front of her, and the photographer says “ If you want to capture the image of that tree why don’t you just take a photograph? It’s more accurate and less hassle.” (“and if you want, you can add a filter afterwards to get the effect you want.”)
Clearly that photographer is not taking into account what the painter is getting out of her chosen activity. Surely she knows about photographs, but has chosen to paint instead. It might not be as accurate, but putting her own bit of flourish on the image is part of the point. Or even if she was indulging in photo realistic painting, taking a photograph instead still wouldn’t fill all the things she gets out of painting. She likes using paint brushes, likes working with paints, the effort it takes to paint… some of the very features the photographer may find a time-consuming hassle the painter enjoys.
In other words, individuals like doing things different ways.
This is what I’ve had to point out many times when people keep suggesting “ why don’t you just use a fully neutral system and add an equalizer or some sort of DSP plug-in?”
Because that’s not the same experience as what I get out of using a tube amp.
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