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Re: -And that tube thing?

ergo: tubes don't make nearly the odd-ordered harmonic content that transistors do (thus the 'smoothness' of tubes vs. the 'harshness' of transistors). This fact is very well known and its implication is that tubes are better for audio than transistors because they follow the rules that we humans use to hear by better.

This simply not the case, there is abundance of evidence at Soundstage and Stereophile.

Another clue to the same is guitar amps. All the good ones are tube. There are no good transistor guitar amps. This is due to the overdrive character of tubes; IOW even in overdrive the odd-ordered harmonic content is less than that of transistors.

I cannot speak for guiter amps, but the latter part about odd-ordered harmonic is simply not so.

Another clue: measure the clipping character of a transistor amplifier and compare to that of a tube amp. You will see the odd-ordered harmincs show up immediately.

Simply not the case...

Or do have anything published recently that shows with objective evidences that audio application transistors have consistently higher odd-harmonics?

Here is tube amplifier you will recognise, and it 3 and 5th harmonics are notably larger than the 2nd and 4th respectively.




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