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In Reply to: does "high gain tube" = higher volume? posted by dean_martin on January 27, 2006 at 18:55:16:
Usually the components like preamps and power amps are designed to have more or less "standard" gains - just to make system mixing and matching possible. Typically your preamp will have maximum gain of 12 to 20dB... regardless of what tubes it uses, the so-called "low gain" or "high gain" tubes inside. Fact is, a high-gain tube can be used in a circuit configuration producing very low gain, and a circuit with very high gain could be built out of "low gain" tubes.Ditto for the power amp. A 26dB number seems to be close to an average, no matter what tubes are used inside.
The tube parameters matter to the circuit designer, who uses a particular tube hopefully for good reasons, but to an average user the preamp or a power amp is just a black box.
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