Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!mhuxl!ulysses!allegra!dep From: dep@allegra.UUCP (Dewayne E. Perry) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Tubes and solid state Message-ID: <2546@allegra.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 08:42:06 EDT Article-I.D.: allegra.2546 Posted: Thu Jun 21 08:42:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 06:36:35 EDT References: <494@drutx.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18 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?