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From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne E. Perry)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Tubes and solid state
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 08:42:06 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 08:42:06 1984
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chomp :- byte, chew, chomp.

A few years ago, I tired a side by side listening test (well, one after the
other) of a solid state and a tube amp (a Bozak ss amp and Luxman mono tube
amps) for the top half of my bi-amped system.  There was a hearable
difference between the two:  the tubes were "warmer" and the solid was
"bighter and more brittle".  String quartets, for example, sounded a little
more lifelike with the tubes than with the solid state.

Cage those sounds of silence - dep

ps.  a long time ago, i read a great science fiction story about this person
(set in the distant future) who restored his hearing to a functional level
and found out that there was much more to music that just the waveforms
on the test instruments.  he unsuccessfully tried to convince people that
there ware more to live performances than just the chicken scratchings on
the large screen behind the performers.  anybody know the title and author?