SoftwireEngineer wrote: > Well..not a conjecture.. probably a generalization based on my limited > experience (in stores and my friends' systems). > Interesting review of M-180 on Stereophile. That even Stereophile should > compare the M-180 sound to the sound of a solid state amplifier is > telling of the 'typical' sound of tube designs.
there is no tube sound. they can be as transparent as any solid state (although to get that performance, tube amps are epensive) or heavily "colored". you simply cannot make generalizations here... a 12ax7 in two different circuits/topologies can sound completely different. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheOctavist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52700 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98249 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
