invaderzim
Senior Member
We have channel mismatch of about 0.5 dB which seems to be typical of a lot of these tube products.
@amirm
Fyi: I contacted schiit regarding the power spec and they told me that they don't comment on other people's measurements but their specifications (of 800 mw @ 300 ohms) are accurate.
My guess would be differences in the tubes. From what I understand getting tubes matched well enough for use like this takes a bit of work and equipment like a curve tracer. And I don't know how long they would stay in that close of spec as they aged with use or things like how this amp biases them.
There seems to be a lot of lower price tube amps that cut corners to meet a price. They can't do the time consuming tube matching and fancy auto-biasing. The design and build quality match the price and the sound suffers.
And there seems to be a fair amount of really expensive ones that don't care about quality output; only about appearances and buzzwords that don't perform that well either.
In-between are only a small amount (often custom built) that spend enough to make the quality decent and avoid the flash in favor of solid build quality. But there isn't much money in producing those so we get a lot of either end of the spectrum.
I realize tube amps won't ever have the specs of solid state but I think the low end, corner cutting models and the high end all flash models hurt the reputation of tubes.
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