How to get Tube sound by Solid State amps

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Originally Posted by Marco

Indeed.

Our 'salotto', as they say in Italy, is rather similar to Gabriele's in our house up in the mountains in Tuscany, but unfortunately there's no hi-fi system in it... Plenty of port, Bourbon, Martini and Brandy, though! ;)

We also make wine from grapes in our own (small) vineyard. It's a lovely place to be in the summer.

Marco.

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Bourbon! Marco, I'll have to have a word with you about decent whisky/whiskey! :eyebrows:

Regards

Wow! Beautiful room and superb system!

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Bourbon! Marco, I'll have to have a word with you about decent whisky/whiskey!

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LOL... I dig the American shit!

It's mellower and more 'rounded' than Scottish malt whisky, and rather better in the TPPV (taste-per-pound-value) stakes, too!

If I want 'fancy', I pour a glass of Louis XIII Rémy Martin and light a Cohiba ;)

Marco.

Just the kind of room for big Harbeths - you'd have an even better mid and "proper" bass too..:D

To return to the thread title. PLEASE don't ever try to make a transistor amp sound like a valve amp. All that deliberately added 2nd harmonic distortion and excess heat doesn't cut it at all when compared to a "proper" valve amp with well chosen low saturation transformers.

The guy who started this thread seems to spend more time on ZG these days..

Nice set up, lovely room.



Regards D S D L

Does he? I rarely look there as I find most of the discussion not particularly stimulating.

Marco.