The circuit is more important than the tube.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.
yeah, I'm not a big believer in "tube rolling", but that's a whole other topic. I have pretty good ears and I hear very little differences between tubes except when one is bad (tests bad) and one is good, or one is microphonic and one isn't. But then I don't like tube amps that "warm" (ie add a noticeable amount of harmonic distortion) the sound. I like accurate amps. Some are tube, some are solid-state. Depends on the input device and the speakers.
One of my more "audiophillic" friends was trying to prove to me how much difference there was in tubes using his "line stage" (ie distortion-adder since the clean way to switch between line-level sources is, well, a passive switch). All I could hear was how hummy his system was. But he's my friend and he paid lots and lots of cash for that thing so I just nodded my head and said, uh huh.
-- Tom Fine
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