Bret Ludwig wrote:
wrote:
The article ONLY deals with the amplifiers topologies AT THE TIME,
UNDER CONDITIONS OF SEVERE CLIPPING DISTRTION.
"Don't clip the amplifier" is easy to say, and tough to do. Totally
avoiding amplifier clipping under any and all circumstnaces requires
either active power compression control (i.e. "Power Guard") or a
really, really, really big amplifier, the very small signal performance
of which is usually suspect unless the amplifier is made extremely
heavy and hot and has a very high quiescent power draw.
Mr. Ludwig, it is clear that you're not in the least bit interested in
dealing with the content of the article. You never read the article,
that's apparent, and you're making a load of baseless assumptions
completely irrelevant rantings.
A 20 watt tube
amp that pulls 50 watts at full power is more efficient in practice
than a 250 watt solid state amp that pulls 80 watts quiescent and 500
at full power if either provides the same _subjective_ performance-even
though the solid state amp is more efficent for each watt it puts out.
What on earth does this load of abosolute nonsense have to
do with the point? Your rantings are pointless and meaningless.
My statement was VERY simple: ANY 250 watt amp trying to produce
more than 20 watts into a load is going to sound MUCH better than
ANY 20 watt tube amp trying to produce 20 watts into the same load.
That's what the implication of the Hamm article is. You don't even
need a "really really big amplifier" for this to be true: a 50 watt
solid
stat amplifier is going to sound better producing, say, 35 watts than
ANY 20 watt tube aplifier trying to produce 35 watts.
First, Hamm's article by title states "transistors _can_ sound better
than tubes", which is sometimes true, not that they "always do" which
we know to be false.
You demonstrated you didn't have a clue what the first Hamm
article said, and now you want to enhance your already solid
reputation by showing that you haven't a clue about this one either?
Go for it.
Either vacuum tubes or trnasistors can be used with good results.
However many people still prefer to use vacuum tubes, at least under
certain circumstances.
That's NOT what your claim blanket claim was. You claimed that
an article that you never read supported your assertion.
You've made numerous assertions, such as the operation of test
equipment, the peroformance of amplifiers and the contents of
articles, all clearly from a position of minimal if any experience or
knowledge of the topics.