Dared MP-5 tubes glowing upon powered after warming up for 30minutes
Tube Pre-Amplifiers. As the term suggests, they use vacuum tubes to output signal. The above a Shuguang Cateye power output (Green) and the Matshisuta 12AX7 Pre-amp tubes (Orange). Amplifiers as the term suggests, increases the wavelength by it's height, hence increasing volume or power, to drive speakers or headphones due to their resistivity, often measured in Ohms. Pre? so it's the stage before the main amp or the power amps, hence it comes with the volume attenuator to control the volume.
Here's the Dared MP-5
Connected from my Citypulse DAC (Digital Audio Converter), output to my AKG K601 headphones. The black blocks holds the transformer, used to transmit and utilize the power. The black cage house my power and pre amp tubes.
Dared MP-5 with my AKG K601 on Crossroads woody stand.
Check out the tubes without the cage, pretty dangerous though, they go as high as 70 degrees celsius so I installed the cage back.
Why the tube amp?
I'm and old school fanboy, obsessed with anything that's old yet reliable. Those days, everything was built with solid foundation, items built to last. Tube amps were the first audio equipment before being replaced my the solid state amps in the 1970s due to it's power efficiency and cost advantage over tubes.
The sound signature of tubes are significantly different from that of solid state, it's a distortion, YES HARMOIC DISTORTION. You didn't read it wrong ~
Music, or sound, has no absolute right and/or wrongs, it's simply about what your ears prefer. Audio engineers have came out with products that scores perfect on the spec sheets, 0.001% distortion, perfect crossovers and energy efficient, yet the product have failed. Because it's deemed over "analytical".
Music, or sound, are imprinted to human, we remember how they used to sound, our grandfathers would definitely find solid state amps rubbish while engineers would point at the numbers of the tubes and the arguments can go on and on and on. Hence a couple of us have concluded that audio has nothing to do with measurement instead, taste.
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