In Reply to: Great Thesis Worth Reading posted by thetubeguy1954 on June 12, 2006 at 11:47:03:
OK, so distortion measurements require some weighting to better correlate with what can be heard. So what's new?On the other hand, I really can't see it favors tubes. Let's take some good tube amps:
http://www.soundstagemagazine.com/measurements/bluecircle_bc202/
OR,
http://www.soundstagemagazine.com/measurements/conrad_johnson_premier_140/
As opposed to a good SS amp, whose distortion is an order of magnitude lower at any frequency than the tube amps can muster:
http://www.soundstagemagazine.com/measurements/bryston_4b_sst/
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- Can't be any good, Tom, it used blind testing! - Pat D 16:55:16 06/12/06 (13)
- Re: Can't be any good, Tom, it used blind testing! - thetubeguy1954 06:51:23 06/13/06 (12)
- They were SBTs, Tom! - Pat D 07:12:00 06/13/06 (11)
- Re: They were SBTs, Tom! - thetubeguy1954 08:21:33 06/13/06 (10)
- Oh! So you mean only subjectivists can criticize blind tests??????????? - Pat D 17:27:47 06/13/06 (9)
- Re: Oh! So you mean only subjectivists can criticize blind tests??????????? - thetubeguy1954 06:41:37 06/14/06 (8)
- I've made some perfectly objective comments about his thesis, which you ignore. - Pat D 07:42:26 06/14/06 (7)
- Re: I've made some perfectly objective comments about his thesis, which you ignore. - thetubeguy1954 08:07:36 06/14/06 (6)
- Re: I've made some perfectly objective comments about his thesis, which you ignore. - Pat D 08:35:27 06/14/06 (5)
- Re: I've made some perfectly objective comments about his thesis, which you ignore. - thetubeguy1954 09:51:53 06/14/06 (4)
- What names have I called, Tom? - Pat D 20:04:42 06/14/06 (3)
- Re: What names have I called, Tom? - thetubeguy1954 06:24:30 06/15/06 (2)
- So you take it back? - Pat D 07:52:27 06/15/06 (1)
- Re: So you take it back? - thetubeguy1954 09:49:47 06/16/06 (0)