They waste energy and resources and have bad sound quality and are somehow still sold as “hifi”. Somehow that bothers me, it’s like selling steam powered trains to someone who already has an overhead line fed with green energy on his train tracks.
Edit: Thinking of it, I forgot vinyl records. They are even worse, they aren’t just outdated, bad sound quality and wasteful, they are also toxic.
You could argue that for hifi but when amplificating instruments it’s exactly the distorsion produced by those lamp that’s looked for and hard to reproduce with transistors.
Yeah, of course you can use it creatively for distortion and saturation, but you can also do this with semiconductors or DSP and if you are such a snob that you really need that specific sound you can just pay the tax :D
all very good suggestions, but why tube amps though 🤔
They waste energy and resources and have bad sound quality and are somehow still sold as “hifi”. Somehow that bothers me, it’s like selling steam powered trains to someone who already has an overhead line fed with green energy on his train tracks.
Edit: Thinking of it, I forgot vinyl records. They are even worse, they aren’t just outdated, bad sound quality and wasteful, they are also toxic.
You could argue that for hifi but when amplificating instruments it’s exactly the distorsion produced by those lamp that’s looked for and hard to reproduce with transistors.
Yeah, of course you can use it creatively for distortion and saturation, but you can also do this with semiconductors or DSP and if you are such a snob that you really need that specific sound you can just pay the tax :D
The snob tax !