Advantages & Disadvantages of a Tube amplifier vs. a Solid State amplifier.
11-05-2003, 03:29 PM
#64
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Originally posted by Keith:
Dereck, Audio Concepts will be doing my car installation. How are things in Medicine Hat??? Are you keeping super busy with lots of installs???
JohnVroom, what does your home audio system consist of???
Dereck, Audio Concepts will be doing my car installation. How are things in Medicine Hat??? Are you keeping super busy with lots of installs???
JohnVroom, what does your home audio system consist of???
11-10-2003, 06:39 PM
#65
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Dereck that is one sweet bug! Very much a pride of ownership vehicle!
AQ is a good cable with a full rich sound, I am using Kimber because of the great detail and tone...but it is unshielded and can be a little hot on top. I also recommend Wireworld Equinox, it is coax so it has good shielding and for a high end cable it, like the Kimber, is a small diameter cable good for automobile installs.
The sound of the US Amps tubed product is really dependant on the tubes. With the Svetlana 12AX7 it sounds a little bright with a touch of sibilance, with the Sovtek 5751 it is warm (but not tubby) with a fair amount of depth (w/o EQ), with RCA or GE 5751’s it is very wide, musical and complex though a little short on depth. The Electro Harmonix 12AX7 tube that it comes with is quiet, neat clean sound, good noise rejection, and quite frankly it is a little course sounding, it is better than many amps at or near its price point with the stock tubes but to get the most out of the design invest $30 for a better tube set. And that is the audio-nervousa with tube product owners “am I getting the best sound out of my system?” This is what drives people back to transistors.
My home system Wireworld Gold Eclipse IC, Krell KSP-7b preamp, Counterpoint NP220 (heavily modified), Micromega CD, and for the Canadians: Magnum Dynalab tuner and an Oracle turntable. The speakers were Canadian influenced Snell B minors.
AQ is a good cable with a full rich sound, I am using Kimber because of the great detail and tone...but it is unshielded and can be a little hot on top. I also recommend Wireworld Equinox, it is coax so it has good shielding and for a high end cable it, like the Kimber, is a small diameter cable good for automobile installs.
The sound of the US Amps tubed product is really dependant on the tubes. With the Svetlana 12AX7 it sounds a little bright with a touch of sibilance, with the Sovtek 5751 it is warm (but not tubby) with a fair amount of depth (w/o EQ), with RCA or GE 5751’s it is very wide, musical and complex though a little short on depth. The Electro Harmonix 12AX7 tube that it comes with is quiet, neat clean sound, good noise rejection, and quite frankly it is a little course sounding, it is better than many amps at or near its price point with the stock tubes but to get the most out of the design invest $30 for a better tube set. And that is the audio-nervousa with tube product owners “am I getting the best sound out of my system?” This is what drives people back to transistors.
My home system Wireworld Gold Eclipse IC, Krell KSP-7b preamp, Counterpoint NP220 (heavily modified), Micromega CD, and for the Canadians: Magnum Dynalab tuner and an Oracle turntable. The speakers were Canadian influenced Snell B minors.
11-22-2003, 07:59 AM
#67
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Tube driver pre-stage and solid state former.
Sounds like tube, doesn't break like tube's do when you're driving and they're hot.
Or, just process the sound thru a computer ... I believer Soundforge has a plugin that will distort sound to sound like a tube amp. Just make sure that your solid-state part ofyour amp never actually clips, only the processing/pre-stage.
Sounds like tube, doesn't break like tube's do when you're driving and they're hot.
Or, just process the sound thru a computer ... I believer Soundforge has a plugin that will distort sound to sound like a tube amp. Just make sure that your solid-state part ofyour amp never actually clips, only the processing/pre-stage.
11-23-2003, 09:20 AM
#68
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Or just build and equalization circuit for a few bucks... Then you'll have tube 'sound' and lots of control and damping...
i reviewed the Tube Driver Blue a while back, but sadly it never made it to print. Don't ask..
Awesome amp, light years better than the original TD stuff.. And they were OK..
i reviewed the Tube Driver Blue a while back, but sadly it never made it to print. Don't ask..
Awesome amp, light years better than the original TD stuff.. And they were OK..
11-23-2003, 10:37 AM
#69
Originally posted by JohnVroom:
AQ is a good cable with a full rich sound, I am using Kimber because of the great detail and tone...but it is unshielded and can be a little hot on top. I also recommend Wireworld Equinox, it is coax so it has good shielding and for a high end cable it, like the Kimber, is a small diameter cable good for automobile installs.
AQ is a good cable with a full rich sound, I am using Kimber because of the great detail and tone...but it is unshielded and can be a little hot on top. I also recommend Wireworld Equinox, it is coax so it has good shielding and for a high end cable it, like the Kimber, is a small diameter cable good for automobile installs.
