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RE: This is interesting

Problem is there is so much hocus pocus and hype out there in place of where logical explanations should be. It is very hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff. I lurked here for a long time before I have an understanding that is satisfying for me. Not complete mind you but satisfying at least.

For those, like myself, who never even saw a tube in school the idea of tubes offering superior performance seems a little backwards at first. Otherwise why would the world have switched over to solid state. That mixed in with the marketting BS and you have a recipe for a very skeptical engineer.

At first I was convinced there is BS at the heart of this tube amp revival. Well there is, but it's not ALL BS. Once you realize that tubes are a bit more linear and tubes do what is called soft clipping, all of it starts making sense. Then when you see papers suggesting this soft clip distortion profile closely matches ear canal distortion, it really hits home that we as living beings may have developed filters to compensate for this natural deficiency in our construction in order to survive and thus would tend to notice this tube clipping distortion less than some other distortion type.

It is all in how the data is presented, and the person seeing the data has to be ready to recieve/understand it which takes a bit of work in itself.

Then again I may just be the latest victim of the big hoax.


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