>
> This has always been baffling me: I can understand why a guitarist may
> prefer a tube amp -- the distortion from a tube amp will be different
> from a transistor amp, and therefore the sound will be
> different as well.
> But with hi-fi equipment, one would avoid ever reaching the the point
> where distortion occurs, so how can it matter?
Tube amps have non-linear transfer curves so they smooth sounds at the high
and low frequencies when they reach saturation (It's a gradual process)...
transistors are linear and once they reach saturation they quickly jump from
a linear power curve to being totally constant.
Hope this helps
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