Thread: Tube Sound vs.Transistor Sound, Again
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Old 11-17-2020, 11:57 PM
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Default Tube Sound vs.Transistor Sound, Again
Tonight I returned back to my tube equipment (Doge 8 pre with Telefunken tubes and a Antique Sound Labs AQ-1004 power amp) after using a new Hafler P3100 Transnova SS power amp with a PS Audio IV passive preamp for three summer months.

What a tremendous improvement in realism with tubes! The sound wasn't even close. My SS equipment's tone just sounds tread bare, grainy, lacking in depth and size of sound stage in comparison to my tube equipment. Just another example of Tubes Rule!

Will keep my SS amp for the summer months, as of course it just runs so much cooler than my "hot" running tube equipment.
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