Post by Falcon Punch on Nov 29, 2009 18:48:16 GMT -5
Hello all. I'm just nearing the semester-end grind, and I recently started writing a stance paper on tube amps vs solid state amps (I'm a recording tech major) and so far it's coming along fine, there's some pretty good information available outside of what little I've realized that I know. I made this post wondering if some of the more dedicated audiophiles had any opinions or maybe even reading recommendations to give me to work with.
I've been working with Jeff Robinson of Third Monk Studios in one of my classes and he's been pretty adamant on teaching me that if you want to hear something, you will. For example we listened to the same song in a bunch of different sampling rates, once with each example labeled and once blind. At first I thought 96kbps was way more crisp and not as compacted, but listening to the same song without a label I was unable to tell which example was 96kpbs and which was 44. I'm starting to notice that maybe the same phenomena applies for some higher end solid state amps, and that maybe as technology continues to advance solid state amps will be near-identical in sound to tube amps. What do you think? Do you prefer playing on a solid state amp or a tube amp? Any contributions to this thread will be greatly appreciated, and will help me fill up the 10 page void that is my term paper. Thanks in advance for those of you who took the time to read this gigantic wall of text.
I've been working with Jeff Robinson of Third Monk Studios in one of my classes and he's been pretty adamant on teaching me that if you want to hear something, you will. For example we listened to the same song in a bunch of different sampling rates, once with each example labeled and once blind. At first I thought 96kbps was way more crisp and not as compacted, but listening to the same song without a label I was unable to tell which example was 96kpbs and which was 44. I'm starting to notice that maybe the same phenomena applies for some higher end solid state amps, and that maybe as technology continues to advance solid state amps will be near-identical in sound to tube amps. What do you think? Do you prefer playing on a solid state amp or a tube amp? Any contributions to this thread will be greatly appreciated, and will help me fill up the 10 page void that is my term paper. Thanks in advance for those of you who took the time to read this gigantic wall of text.