Great video Mike! appreciate your time and energy!!
@walterpen371
Keep pouring it out Mickey. Very well explained. Thanks for sharing and ✌️.
@josephvanalstyne4049
One of your best videos excellent explanation amazing stuff great video
@jazzlouise
My set up is tube preamp and solid state mono amps.
@nicholaskrebs7815
Tubes for your preamp stages (phono included) and SS for the amp. Best way to go
@jonathandavis9507
Awesome breakdown, Mikey. I love tubes but switched to solid state for the same reasons you mentioned.
@jaymichaud7137
I have a Gold Note IS 1000 Deluxe integrated that is SS, and it sounds tube-like. Replaced a very good tube pre-amp and amp. Like the sound and serenity of SS.
@TheCharlesAtoz
A passionate man! Great channel OCD!!
@legrandgroves8560
Another great video, spurring some good conversation. 😊
@rvaillant
The huge difference for me is that good tube amps sound Alive while most solid state sounds Dead. I agree with Kevin Deal in that I would rather listen to a good tube amp than 50k stack of solid state. The two solid state offerings that might change that for me is the AGD, and Daniel and Hertz, class D amps of all things.
@ridirefain6606
Love the how the differences are explained in this video. I been a tube head since the late 90's when the technology was first seeing a resurgence. To be honest, I loved the sound but absolutely hated owning the first ones I had. So much so that I went on hiatus and stayed away from them for the longest time. Whenever anyone expresses an interest in getting into tube amps, I did everything in my power to talk them out of it. Reliability being issue one, and the cost of replacing tubes, also being issue one. If you can be satisfied with great sounding SS amp, I always say put your money into that and stay away from tubes.
@chesrider2373
I've found that a tube preamp with solid state monoblocks sound great
@glenncurry3041
I'm old! 3 years of electronics in High School, basic, tubes and finally transistors. Then formal education in electronics. Broadcast major (FCC licensed). We were taught that tubes were inherently linear and (bipolar) transistors were switches that could be forced to operate in linear areas. Feedback loops required. Tubes are also inherently better at high frequencies. Which is why microwave ovens still use tubes.
@Nephilim-81
A lot of tube amplifiers use a self biasing regulator/resistor to negate the problems of excessive tube matching.
@ac81017
That was very interesting!! I ended up with a tube dac and pre amp through a solid state amp. I find i get the best of both worlds.
@SimoRama
Thank you for share your exp..IMHO you can get a Tube Preamp, it last longer and you have same ethereal effect. And if you are in budget, get chinese tube buffer. They give some nice harmonics too and it last pretti forever if you are lucky, then go for a vintage ab class amp, it will preserve those harmonics along a wide freq. spectrum.. greetings from Tuscany 👋
@fabien7079
I love my Audiomat tube electronics (Power & pre) We need tubes electronic in Canada for heat... LOL
@DodgyBrothersEngineering
Nice to see someone out there putting out real basic HiFi fundamentals instead of the usual hype. Only just discovered the channel but getting into it.
@net_news
Tubes are ideal to introduce people into good sound. In my experience, to achieve tube sound quality using SS you have to spend a LOT of money. I mean, for 1 or $2k you can have a beautiful sounding DECware tube amp... getting that level of sound with solid state is totally possible but you have to spend at least 5x more and maybe i'm being too optimistic.
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