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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:52 am
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so how can a watt for a tube amp be different to that of a solid state amp.
I've read here that the same wattage in tube or ss amps is much louder etc in tube.
How can this be true if a watt is something constant, so therefore, 30 watts =30 watts, no matter through what medium it is being supplied.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:27 pm
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Watts only sort of translate to sound levels. Speaker efficiency is also involved so 30 watts into a speaker with a 100 efficiency is louder than one into a speaker that's only a 95. But the big difference is that tube amps compress the signal and introduce harmonics that make the overall aural character louder. If you overdrive an SS amp, it starts to make a square wave out of the signal which sounds harsh. If you overdrive a tube amp it will still lop the top off the waveform but it doesn't really square it off and you get more of that nice crunchy tube sound. By overdrive I mean literally create a signal that's larger amplitude than what the output stage (or preamp) can physically handle.


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