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Re: Anyone with a real understanding of power tube distortion?

7/16/2000 3:36 PM
JM	*Re: Anyone with a real understanding* of power tube distortion?** One good place to look would be Radiotron Designer's Handbook edited by F. Langford-Smith. The listing for distortion in the index is longer than most peoples descriptions. This text is truly the tube bible, not Mr Pitmans book which was a nice attempt in a very dark time to spark some interest in tube amps :^O It's not that people don't know how to make a tube amp today just that it's a lot easier and more profitable to make a lame one. You don't have to know all the science behind it to make a chocolate cake either. The proper ingredients in the right proportions will produce good results even without knowing all the theory behind it. Most tube amps makers today are really no different than the people who make chocolate cake, they tell you that thier product is wonderful, most people beleive it while a few others who question it often find out that the sugar has been replaced with corn syrup, the vanilla has become vanillin and the chocolate used isn't produced quite the same way it used to be. "Would you like some ice cream with that?" JM

7/16/2000 3:36 PM

Re: Anyone with a *real understanding* of power tube distortion?

One good place to look would be Radiotron Designer's Handbook edited by F. Langford-Smith. The listing for distortion in the index is longer than most peoples descriptions. This text is truly the tube bible, not Mr Pitmans book which was a nice attempt in a very dark time to spark some interest in tube amps :^O
It's not that people don't know how to make a tube amp today just that it's a lot easier and more profitable to make a lame one. You don't have to know all the science behind it to make a chocolate cake either. The proper ingredients in the right proportions will produce good results even without knowing all the theory behind it. Most tube amps makers today are really no different than the people who make chocolate cake, they tell you that thier product is wonderful, most people beleive it while a few others who question it often find out that the sugar has been replaced with corn syrup, the vanilla has become vanillin and the chocolate used isn't produced quite the same way it used to be. "Would you like some ice cream with that?"

JM