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Originally Posted by mrlizard
its the same volume, its just distorting differently, the ouput transformer can handle it because its not actually any louder, its just you can get roughly 30% more percieved volume before your ear hears it as distortion. The transients are more rounded than squished flat.
read this:
Audio Engineering Society article, may 1973.
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Ah right, see, i didnt think you were talking about percieved volume, i thought you were talking actual power (wattage) output, and i was gonna say i know it is a tad on the variable side with different tubes and such, but 30% extra watts seemed like a lot more.
However, from a biological standpoint, distortion doesnt increase the percieved volume as much as alot of people seem to put over, but, i dare say the percieved volume of 30% extra power is only adding 1.5 ish dB roughly.
I know they transients are rounded with valve amps, and flat with SS amps, its called soft and hard clipping, it also leads to the misconception that clipping a solid state amp is the same as pumping DC into the speakers, which it isnt, IIRC its to do with having the speaker close to maximum excursion, but, thats a different story and a tad ranty.
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Originally Posted by captain ahab
There are a few amazing heads you can pick up which are way under 30 watts. The Z-vex Nano Head is 1/2 watt and sounds great. The bad cat Hot cat 15 watt head is sublime (pricey though). Orange are now producing a head which i believe is switchable from 15 to 8 watts, i believe it is called the tiny terror.
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Thats interesting, i suspected there may be a few, but, as i said they are a tad on the harder to come by way
, i didnt know about the orange at all tho, thought they went down to 30 watts, interesting, and all good tho
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Originally Posted by tartanriot
http://www.cornfordamps.com/
The Harlequin and Carrera are both between 5 and 8 watts. i'v only ever used the cornford heads but im guessing the combos will sound equaly fuckin amamzing!
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Cornford amps are damned nice, but, damned expensive !