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28 minutes ago, littlejohn said:
One maker of high end audio stuff (Carver maybe?) shows the 'Integrated tube amp" and it got raves. He drilled the rivets out of the case and showed his best solid state amp, a small heater, several neons to give a warm glow, and 20 pounds of lead. The audio fed through an aural exciter chip which made it sound 'tube'.
My feeling is this was before the loudness wars in digital formatting. There's a reason tubes are making a comeback, and it's largely because they cover up poor mixing and compression artifacts with a nice, analog glowy sound. Transistors can't fake that, hard as they may try.
If the source material is uncompressed and good (most isn't) tubes aren't needed and solid state is arguably better.
