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Originally Posted by I_got_a_mohawk
know alot of people say valve amps sound like they are 3-4x higher wattage (well "SS watts"), but, im still not sold on that  , i |
When you're talking about clipping they do, you can get around 30% more gain out of the pre and power stages of a valve amp before it can be percieved as distortion, it'll add even order harmonics (arguably distortion) but an effect that is pleasing to the ear, wheras with solid state when its clipping its clipping, and its clipping hard! so less volume before it starts sounding shite.
The bass amp comparison is not a good one, i don't know much about bass amps but if i owned an SVT i would try and run it within it's linear operating level, so i wouldn't be hearing that extra percieved volume. A well designed valve amp can sound just as clean as a good solid state one.