I never understood why hi-fi/high-end companies use tube rectifiers... Tubes in the signal path, yes, beautiful results, but using tube rectifiers it's a no go for me. I've had the chance to test the same tube equipment with both solid state and tube rectifiers, the solid state rectification provided better results every single time. Then again it might have been those implementations, but that's my experience....
Are you sure that you can translate that one time experience of a very specific design/product to all cases? 5U4G or 274B rectifier tubes have been a sign of musicality to me. I can think of quite a few products that use them which I find amazing to listen to and their designers (I am not a tube gear designer, so that's just what they say, so take it with a grain of salt) seem to find that a key element to musical performance. I own several tube gear pieces with that kind of tube rectification and love them. From two of the particular items I know that the designer of the product (based on their own words) intentionally went for that type of tube rectification for sonic results. In one of the two cases that was even the biggest changes from an older version of the same product to the new version with quite a notable improvement. I would give the designers of their own products who have been doing this for decades the benefit of the doubt about choosing very specific transformers, capacitors, tubes etc ... or like in this case tube rectification. While nobody is perfect and each designer also has a certain taste which one may like or dislike, they typically have performed extensive listening over many years and matching the right components. They don't put in more expensive stuff into their products without good sonic reasons. 5U4G rectification is way more expensive than doing that part with solid state but still so many designers swear by it. I assume that this could be one of the cases of "solid state rectification measures better in certain areas" while high quality DHT tube rectification does things right where it matters, i.e. sonics. Some designers see that as the ultimate rectification and see the big downside in the cost department which is why you don't find it in lower priced products but always in their higher ones or flagships.
@@andreas7278 Hello Andreas! No, I cannot translate it to all cases, as it is not common for an amp to offer both options, so that you can do A/B tests with the switch of a button. HOWEVER, I have experienced the same results with many high-quality guitar tube amps, and there the differences where much more pronounced! The term "musicality" means different things to different people. If by "musicality" you mean softer transients, and less-fatiguing, softer sound, then go for it if that's what you like, but as a musician I would say that this is not what I was listening from the studio monitors when I was composing/mixing/mastering the track. To each their own I guess, plus we all have our experiences, maybe the tube-rectification stages in the amps I've tried were not properly designed and I might be wrong, maybe listening to some properly designed, high-end tube amps with tube rectification can change my mind.
@@kostasjezuz4846 Thanks for sharing your insights. It seems like you are coming from a very different field of experiences. I have listened to a lot of high end hifi tube gear but have no experience at all with guitar tube amps. But quality wise that is a completely different playing field. I don't hear soft transients from high end tube rectification. In general it's very difficult in hifi to translate within different fields, one of them being very different target audience (studio vs hifi), or another one very different price levels (rules apply very differently for highend than for more mass market oriented gear). Often times issues that you find at the highend are not even a concern on the other side of the spectrum since systems don't show you these problems clearly enough or vice versa below certain quality levels budget constraints hold back doing a good job. I am talking about the highend of tube rectification which doesn't show me these downsides. They are extremely linear (especially since they run it only in the near perfect range) which is more linear than any bipolar transistors out there in the market even with strong correction can offer since they are highly nonlinear by design independ of price level, so this has to be compensated for which always introduces errors.
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I never understood why hi-fi/high-end companies use tube rectifiers... Tubes in the signal path, yes, beautiful results, but using tube rectifiers it's a no go for me.
I've had the chance to test the same tube equipment with both solid state and tube rectifiers, the solid state rectification provided better results every single time.
Then again it might have been those implementations, but that's my experience....
Are you sure that you can translate that one time experience of a very specific design/product to all cases? 5U4G or 274B rectifier tubes have been a sign of musicality to me. I can think of quite a few products that use them which I find amazing to listen to and their designers (I am not a tube gear designer, so that's just what they say, so take it with a grain of salt) seem to find that a key element to musical performance. I own several tube gear pieces with that kind of tube rectification and love them. From two of the particular items I know that the designer of the product (based on their own words) intentionally went for that type of tube rectification for sonic results. In one of the two cases that was even the biggest changes from an older version of the same product to the new version with quite a notable improvement. I would give the designers of their own products who have been doing this for decades the benefit of the doubt about choosing very specific transformers, capacitors, tubes etc ... or like in this case tube rectification. While nobody is perfect and each designer also has a certain taste which one may like or dislike, they typically have performed extensive listening over many years and matching the right components. They don't put in more expensive stuff into their products without good sonic reasons. 5U4G rectification is way more expensive than doing that part with solid state but still so many designers swear by it. I assume that this could be one of the cases of "solid state rectification measures better in certain areas" while high quality DHT tube rectification does things right where it matters, i.e. sonics. Some designers see that as the ultimate rectification and see the big downside in the cost department which is why you don't find it in lower priced products but always in their higher ones or flagships.
@@andreas7278 Hello Andreas! No, I cannot translate it to all cases, as it is not common for an amp to offer both options, so that you can do A/B tests with the switch of a button. HOWEVER, I have experienced the same results with many high-quality guitar tube amps, and there the differences where much more pronounced!
The term "musicality" means different things to different people. If by "musicality" you mean softer transients, and less-fatiguing, softer sound, then go for it if that's what you like, but as a musician I would say that this is not what I was listening from the studio monitors when I was composing/mixing/mastering the track. To each their own I guess, plus we all have our experiences, maybe the tube-rectification stages in the amps I've tried were not properly designed and I might be wrong, maybe listening to some properly designed, high-end tube amps with tube rectification can change my mind.
@@kostasjezuz4846 Thanks for sharing your insights. It seems like you are coming from a very different field of experiences. I have listened to a lot of high end hifi tube gear but have no experience at all with guitar tube amps. But quality wise that is a completely different playing field. I don't hear soft transients from high end tube rectification. In general it's very difficult in hifi to translate within different fields, one of them being very different target audience (studio vs hifi), or another one very different price levels (rules apply very differently for highend than for more mass market oriented gear). Often times issues that you find at the highend are not even a concern on the other side of the spectrum since systems don't show you these problems clearly enough or vice versa below certain quality levels budget constraints hold back doing a good job. I am talking about the highend of tube rectification which doesn't show me these downsides. They are extremely linear (especially since they run it only in the near perfect range) which is more linear than any bipolar transistors out there in the market even with strong correction can offer since they are highly nonlinear by design independ of price level, so this has to be compensated for which always introduces errors.