Yeah, it’s a very clever circuit which I believe is let down by the implementation.Copy. So basically tubes are “sort of directly” coupled to speakers and somehow match their impedance without help of transformers. Very interesting. Thanks.
Yeah, it’s a very clever circuit which I believe is let down by the implementation.Copy. So basically tubes are “sort of directly” coupled to speakers and somehow match their impedance without help of transformers. Very interesting. Thanks.
I'm mystified as to why anyone would want to do that, other than to be different. The results are mediocre to say the least, and the cost is exorbitant. But then that fits in with so much of the 'high end'.Yeah, it’s a very clever circuit which I believe is let down by the implementation.
It allows better bandwidth and, in theory, better LF distortion. Major weight and cost savings as well. Transformers are the weak point in tube design, and this could, if well implemented, provide greatly improved performance.I'm mystified as to why anyone would want to do that, other than to be different. The results are mediocre to say the least, and the cost is exorbitant. But then that fits in with so much of the 'high end'.
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Perhaps so for a tube amp, but why would anyone choose today to design a tube amp when Class D can perform so much better and cheaper and with less power consumption? Even Class AB is better in every respect than a tube power amp.It allows better bandwidth and, in theory, better LF distortion. Major weight and cost savings as well. Transformers are the weak point in tube design, and this could, if well implemented, provide greatly improved performance.
Tubes and valves... obsolete technology, their place is in museums.
Perhaps so for a tube amp, but why would anyone choose today to design a tube amp when Class D can perform so much better and cheaper and with less power consumption? Even Class AB is better in every respect than a tube power amp.
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Because it is not always about being exact and right. And you don't have to have a big and heavy tube amp. It is more about the setting. You have a nice room with a view or a fireplace with someone special, some regular tube amp and some efficient speakers and you play some Dino or Frankie on a turntable.... But you gotta have tubes visible. None of that covered up awful designs. You gotta show tubes and transformers.Perhaps so for a tube amp, but why would anyone choose today to design a tube amp when Class D can perform so much better and cheaper and with less power consumption? Even Class AB is better in every respect than a tube power amp.
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And tubes suppose to run a lot cooler + extended longevity (I think +/-10years) according to their claims.It allows better bandwidth and, in theory, better LF distortion. Major weight and cost savings as well. Transformers are the weak point in tube design, and this could, if well implemented, provide greatly improved performance.
So it's for show, not for quality, so not HiFi, just showing off.Because it is not always about being exact and right. And you don't have to have a big and heavy tube amp. It is more about the setting. You have a nice room with a view or a fireplace with someone special, some regular tube amp and some efficient speakers and you play some Dino or Frankie on a turntable.... But you gotta have tubes visible. None of that covered up awful designs. You gotta show tubes and transformers.
There is a TV show "Bosch" where he had Mcintosh tube amp in last season, btw.
Not only that. Tube base gear gets often restored and brought to life while everything else gets trashed. HiFi recycle if you will. LolI am surprised in the current world political environment no one has mentioned that tube amps can survive an EMP attack ..... the day after the only way to play music will be tube amps and TT's running off of solar panels......
I am surprised in the current world political environment no one has mentioned that tube amps can survive an EMP attack ..... the day after the only way to play music will be tube amps and TT's running off of solar panels......
No it is not high fidelity, you are right. But it is not for showing off. It is to enjoy it when you are in a mood for that kind of sound signature... If you at all have those preferences inside you.So it's for show, not for quality, so not HiFi, just showing off.
With my functionalist view of life, I just don't understand it. HiFi equipment is a tool, just like a vacuum cleaner or a hammer, there to do a job, nothing else.
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So it's for show, not for quality, so not HiFi, just showing off.
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My staff says that about me.Tubes and valves... obsolete technology, their place is in museums.
I am surprised in the current world political environment no one has mentioned that tube amps can survive an EMP attack ..... the day after the only way to play music will be tube amps and TT's running off of solar panels......
Tubes and valves... obsolete technology, their place is in museums.
I am surprised in the current world political environment no one has mentioned that tube amps can survive an EMP attack ..... the day after the only way to play music will be tube amps and TT's running off of solar panels......