From: gherold@teachspin.com   
      
   On Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 1:44:53 PM UTC-5, et...@whidbey.com wrote:   
   > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 18:05:59 -0700 (PDT), George Herold   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 2:26:21 PM UTC-4, et...@whidbey.com wrote:   
   > >> Since I will be playing a low wattage tube amp through speakers it   
   > >> seems that high efficiency speakers are in order. How can I tell the   
   > >> efficiency of a speaker from looking at the specs?   
   > >> Thanks,   
   > >> Eric   
   > >   
   > >Hey Eric, Can I ask why the tube amp obsession?  If you're interested   
   > >in how they work, then you could fix up some old one or build your own.   
   > >   
   > >George H.   
   > >   
   > It's not an obsession. It's just that I need a new stereo because the   
   > old one crapped out. The stereo will be in the area where we entertain   
   > and so it should look pleasing. To me at least. I have always exposed   
   > tubes, ever since I was a little kid. We had a big tube radio with a   
   > mafic eye tuner tube and I loved that. My grandfather was a sound   
   > engineer who worked for Bell Labs. He had a sound lab in one room of   
   > the house and when we would visit the grandparents I would always get   
   > to check out his lab. There were several oscilloscopes as well as   
   > equipment with exposed, glowing tubes. So that's why I want a tube   
   > amp. It needs to sound good to me and look good to me. It's gonna be   
   > connected to am MP3 player so it's not like I abhor silicon. If I had   
   > the time I would build one. And maybe down the road I will. Tubes are   
   > way different than solid state stuff.   
   > Eric   
      
   "Tubes are way different than solid state stuff."   
      
   Hi Eric,  well first I know almost nothing about tubes,   
   and not much more about audio amps driving speakers.   
   But I've heard that tubes are like Fets.  And (being   
   a class A type of guy.) for Fet's you have the things like   
   the Zen Amp (Nelson Pass). And I'm thinking you could do   
   the same thing with a tube... run it class A, and with the right   
   output transformer ('cause of the higher voltage for tubes)   
   You are done.  (class A is easy to make and understand.. it just   
   wastes boat loads of power.)   
      
   Comments from audio types welcome.   
      
   George H.   
      
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