Let's face it, tube amps actually distort more that a modern class D amp. I just like the way they sound and building them is one of my hobbies.One of the wins of being old, is that while I can live vicariously though others, I am fairly happy with Spotify, and don't detect a huge difference between a DAC feeding a reasonable class D amp and decent bookcase speakers (office) and a much more expensive amp feeding a much much more expensive speaker system in the home theatre room. Things do blow up with much more enthusiasm with the 1000 Watt powered sub in the theatre room, but my days of pontificating about tube amps and vinyl over decent class A and cds, or claiming to be able to hear the difference of absurdly priced speaker wire are far behind me. Perhaps it is for the better.Yep. A good quality DAC hat on a Pi feeding a tube amp to a pair of fine British floor speakers for audiophile quality FLAC streaming.
OTOH, the little tube amps do look so cool and a frivolous upgrade to a tube amp purely for the retro look is on the list for the office.
Statistics: Posted by lurk101 — Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:00 pm