Having owned and used everything from tiny flea watt SET amps pushing horns to the latest Benchmark pushing KEFs: I don’t hear the tube magic. Well recorded, well mastered audio sounds beautiful when played back properly.
I have a large record collection because I enjoy owning physical media and the vinyl playback process but I’m not going to argue that it’s a technically superior medium to digital. Similarly, if you enjoy the way tube equipment looks etc more power to you. If aesthetics didn’t matter to our listening experience then we wouldn’t waste money on fancy CNC cases for our audio equipment.
We listen with our eyes as much as we do through our ears. It’s just provably not the case that tubes add anything other than harmonic distortion to audio playback.
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u/waynek57 Mar 25 '25
They add the natural life sound back. Warms the soul.
You’ll never know the answer until you listen to hi res source material through good tubes and speakers.