Nope I never mentioned anything about facts related to tube amp's & if something whose created with tubes it will sound best listened with tubes. Sure & not only modern recording equipment but all recording equipment. It simply isn't the same as being there & listening & it probably never will be. The part concerning the physical impact of sound whose about DSD where I did recall on the scientific experiment which confirmed it but it would be to match to call even that as a fact. For me DSD is a step up towards natural sounding but thees more work to be done (as always).
You all have right to disagree to have your own opinion & entitle to it but what ever that is it's not scientific nor a fact & neither is mine.
Edit the mentioned passive tube emulator & EQ software (Pteq-x) is actually the great tool to hear what you gain & loss with tube & how it actually applies to different source.
Ah, thanks for the response, previous posts were difficult to follow.
I like your point about the software emulating the tube sound - I'm surprised this is not more prevalent.
So, if I understand, your opinion is that there is still undiscovered data in a music signal path that is not measured with our state of the art $28,000 analyzer. And (you mentioned earlier), that ultrasonics somehow find their way down the spectrum and affect sound within our hearing range - that we are also not measuring.
And, if a sound was recorded with tubes, such as a guitar playing through a tube amp, it takes another tube amp on the reproduction side to uncover this missing data. Do I have it right?
Wouldn't you in this case be double-tubing? Adding tube sound on the front end to tube sound already recorded. Wouldn't you want that recorded tube sound to be reproduced as accurately as possible? Or are you saying it's like Dolby NR, where it has to be encoded/decoded?
This really doesn't make any logical sense, other than you like tubes.
We will indeed disagree on these points. My opinion is that the proven science has already refuted these points. I will admit though, that we don't know everything (you don't know what you don't know, right?), and there is much about our universe that we have yet to discover.
Maybe tubes and ultrasonics are kind of like dark matter...