The truth about tube amps

[A. Vivaldi]

<font color='#000000'>What do those at audioholics feel about tube amps. Do they sound different/worse/better? I've always heard about them but never had the opportunity to hear one. I have talked to non-audiophile musicians and some of them think tube guitar amps are better sounding, but that's a whole different story.</font>

 

[abe]

<font color='#000000'>tubes are too much of distortion. not my cup of tea.

You might want to check out Mr. Rip's 'resource' here on Audioholics:

http://www.audioholics.com/cgi-bin....;t=1271



Abe</font>

 

[A. Vivaldi]

<font color='#000000'><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">tubes are too much of distortion. not my cup of tea. </td></tr></table> &nbsp; &nbsp; Does anyone out there think that the distortion factor may be why some guitarists like tube amps? Any musicians out there?</font>

 

[Dan Banquer]

<font color='#000000'>Bet on it; guitar players love the distortion they can get from overloading tubes.
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;d.b.</font>

 

[gene]

<font color='#000000'>My theory is this, when making a recording, the artist may choose tube mics/amps because they like the distortion profile that colors the voice/guitar sound. Great no problem there. &nbsp;I also like how a tube amp distorts guitar.

However, the playback of the recording should be as faithful as possible. &nbsp;Thus throwing another tube amp into the mix at the playback stage can only further colorize the sound which may not be the representation of what the artist intended.</font>

 

[jeffsg4mac]

<font color='#000000'>One of the very reasons I have never liked Macintosh amps and preamps, they always sounded like a tube design to me. They should just stick to computers

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