Re: Re: Tubes in Pre-amps: your expertise and honest opinion.

[Nik <fluke@gotadsl.co.uk>]

There are none in production that I know of. There's no point. It's like 
puting a hotel in the middle of the Sahara: everyone assumes it's a mirage 
(joke). Thje Bluetone gets there in a guitar amp. And back in the 80s 
there was an overdrive pedal that fooled 100% in blind tests. But it's 
been off the market for many years.

There are simple circuit techniques around to reproduce all the desirable 
characteristics of valve amps, but peole still won't buy the stuff.

Ironic, when so much effort goes into making modern valve amps sound like 
SS.

Nik

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Subject:        Re: Tubes in Pre-amps: your expertise and honest opinion.
Author: Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>
Date:            Thu,  4 Jan 2007 15:14:11 +0000

I've been watching this thread just a bit, and didn't bother posting until 
now, when Fluke wrote:


> Speaking as a designer of SS audio circuits with > 15 years experiance > 
>behind me, we can satisfy the tube purists (both audiophile and guitar > 
>player) without too much trouble...
> ...but only until the blindfolds come off.

Please, please, Fluke, tell me what solid state audio chain will sound and 
respond like any of my tube amps? I'm a guitar player, and much as I LOVE 
SS gear for so many applications; and much as I've tried SS amps, 
sometimes for months at a time; and much as I would LOVE to have a 
preamp/power amp chain that required less expensive maintenance and less 
carrying weight, I've never experienced anything that comes close to any 
of my tube amps (Music Man RD-50, Acoustic G100T, Fender Pro-Reverb, Mesa 
Boogie Lone Star Special, Carvin V3).

Please, please, please (to quote the late great Godfather of Soul) tell me 
where I will find a SS power amp of any wattage that will respond like the 
power sections in these amps, or where there is a SS preamp that will 
massage my tone like any of these?

I play without blindfolds, but with an open mind, open ears, and open 
heart.

Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
www.thecoyote.org
coyotelk@optonline.net

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