We need to understand the con man's bag of tricks, and know how to spot them and reject them.
Jim
We need to understand the con man's bag of tricks, and know how to spot them and reject them.
Jim
What penny???And I bet every penny for advertising comes right out of the engineering budget.
I got it but I thought I should emphasize it a little more.I believe that @fpitas was making a sarcastic/humorous comment about audio con men in general, and not necessarily aiming at any one particular product .... including the one you had mentioned.
Jim
Okay. I suppose the "Clean Tube" preset did add some treble sharpness, such accentuated when such was still heard amid my misinterpreted expectation that it should have been the bypassed sound that would have more treble when the narrator had rather vied for the tube sound's brightness. Maybe it did bring the guitar tones forward (or it was just playing slightly louder at that time), but it can still be rather subtle. And I do suppose I hadn't been focusing on the bass very much amid the "Warm Tube" preset, whereby particularly in the section where both presets were put in series, I guess the bass had a subtle warm buzz added to it.please try again...it's not that hard. listen to the highs on the clean one (upper range of background guitars) and the bass on the warm one
that's what the knob is for
Word.Bad tube amplifiers , are amplifiers that contain vacuum tubes.
Vanity, and wanting something fooking gorgeous. (photo from https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hifiman-he1000-se.886228/post-17384670)But why use a tube amp at all?
To me that looks horrid.Vanity, and wanting something fooking gorgeous. (photo from https://www.head-fi.org/threads/hifiman-he1000-se.886228/post-17384670)
Indeed, "audio jewelry". www.reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/1ucguq/in_defense_of_tube_amps_an_objective_take/ notes some sources on how certain types of distortion could psychoacoustically still be "transparent", but still induce preferences in controlled listening. Anyways, even if I were to not notice a difference on sighted tests, I would still feel happy having saved up for and acquired the most beautiful 8 W headphone amp I can think of. Indeed, simply an object that makes you feel good even compared to a boxy similarly priced solid-state amp.
If I owned it, I couldn't stop chuckling from that monstrosity being used to drive headphones. Definitely "Golden Age of Wireless" craziness.To me that looks horrid.
Yes, indeed. A little casual reading on some forums is scary sometimes.I got it but I thought I should emphasize it a little more.
And it's not only about the manufacturer,this situation shows that there are people that are obsessed about these things.
(to me only the looks was enough to detest it,I have seen DIY stuff light years far more nice looking,and that goes to ANY stuff,a 130db SINAD one would have the same detest by me,I'm superficial )
Yes, it is known that these "Gold Lions" are Russian-made (apparently by Sovtek Corporation), whatever you may think of said quality. I wouldn't make any claims regarding the trademark ownership status without further research.I wonder where those fake Gold Lion tubes were made. Maybe in the same factory in Russia or China where the fake "Westrex" tubes are made.
Stealing old trademarks and recycling them is really moral terpitude. It IS legal.
Indeed, all are to their own opinions. I personally find most solid-state amps "too boxy", or can't stand the silver ones. I collect typewriters, and one machine one find gorgeous could be hideous to another.To me that looks horrid.
Well...I certainly don't get it, either. But people do spend lavishly on hobbies.But if you are old enough to remember real Gold Lion KT88mps you know that Genalex was General Electric of England and they were made in England. Anything else is fake. Even if they legally have registered the Gold Lion trademark because Genalex abandoned it in the eighties.
Tube stuff is for idiots. Only a moron would pay $70 for a russian made dual triode.
Of course, the remakes are "fake", regardless of what present-day quality or lack thereof was actually put into them. Maybe they are excellent and functionally equivalent replicas, maybe not, and prospective customers would likely know that. Anyways, looking on eBay, it seems a whole lot "smarter" to go with the Russian-made ones than attempt to acquire NOS Genalex Golden Lions, unless you believe that replicas should be substantially devalued. Anyways, though I haven't actually heard them yet, I remain of the stance that it is up to the listener whether they desire to partake of intentional colouration (whatever you think of how well DSP could reproduce it), so long as these tubes, topologies, or transformers are actually measurably producing these desired colourations. Considering whether entertaining the emotional appeals of tubes is "rational" or warranted could question why we should be affected by music itself (or liking one set of genres or disliking others) at all, at least knowing there are people who don't care for music.But if you are old enough to remember real Gold Lion KT88mps you know that Genalex was General Electric of England and they were made in England. Anything else is fake. Even if they legally have registered the Gold Lion trademark because Genalex abandoned it in the eighties.
Tube stuff is for idiots. Only a moron would pay $70 for a russian made dual triode.
I always liked the aesthetics of overdone heat sinks and rack handles. There is less weight with toroidal transformers today, and less need for cooling with class-D. Meters were a thing for a while, but on power amps they mainly sit around zero. Putting a real time spectrum analyzer on a power amp would look good.Indeed, all are to their own opinions. I personally find most solid-state amps "too boxy", or can't stand the silver ones. I collect typewriters, and one machine one find gorgeous could be hideous to another.