corElement
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1. What factors determine the life of a tube amplifier
2. Do tube amps themselves (not output) emit a "hum" when they are on?
3. Is the background from which sound emerges dark/black or is there a hint of "hiss" when volume is increased?
4. In regards to a soundcard like STX and it's "pre-amp" control interface, if one has a tube poweramp only where you only turn the tube amp on and off, can one "avoid" getting a "seperate preamp" and reduce clutter in the signal by just using the soundcard's controls itself?
5. When there is a signal running to the tube amp do the tubes heat up only then, or are they always heated up to a specified amount acc to the amp designer?
6. How are tubeamps affected by frequent power cuts and what can damage them?
7. When power is cut from the amp, do tubes continue to play for a second or two till the signals gone through?
8. What factors determine the possibility of amp-rolling?
9. What controls the tube to be or not be overdriven? Preamp volume voltage? power supply?
10. Are high quality SET tubeamps necessarily a lot heavier than medium-end solid state?
11. I see a lot of non toroidal transformers used in tubeamps, whats the reason?
Thats all for now, hope these arent very difficult questions >.<
2. Do tube amps themselves (not output) emit a "hum" when they are on?
3. Is the background from which sound emerges dark/black or is there a hint of "hiss" when volume is increased?
4. In regards to a soundcard like STX and it's "pre-amp" control interface, if one has a tube poweramp only where you only turn the tube amp on and off, can one "avoid" getting a "seperate preamp" and reduce clutter in the signal by just using the soundcard's controls itself?
5. When there is a signal running to the tube amp do the tubes heat up only then, or are they always heated up to a specified amount acc to the amp designer?
6. How are tubeamps affected by frequent power cuts and what can damage them?
7. When power is cut from the amp, do tubes continue to play for a second or two till the signals gone through?
8. What factors determine the possibility of amp-rolling?
9. What controls the tube to be or not be overdriven? Preamp volume voltage? power supply?
10. Are high quality SET tubeamps necessarily a lot heavier than medium-end solid state?
11. I see a lot of non toroidal transformers used in tubeamps, whats the reason?
Thats all for now, hope these arent very difficult questions >.<
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