Re: Book Review: The Tube Amp Book , Pittman,

From: Kevin Aylward (salesEXTRACT_at_anasoft.co.uk)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 08:25:26 GMT

Ban wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>> Poor Image Quality Ruins Book's One Attribute
>>
>> Aspen Pittman, whom I have met and talked to at several industry
>> conventions such as NAMM and AES, is not a highly technical
>> individual: in fact I doubt he even understands basic electronics.
>> His book is therefore a compilation of a lot of schematics and (on
>> Fenders) parts layouts for guitar amplifiers, and a few articles
>> written by various tech writers, some of which are of merit and some
>> of which aren't.
>>
>> The schematics are not very legible and many contain known errors.
>> For this price, he could at least get that part right. I don't
>> recommend this book unless you cannot find a needed schematic or
>> layout anywhere else.
>
> Paul,
> tho I appreciate your reviews, S.E.D. is probably not the best place
> to publish them. Write them as a feedback at Amazons, in
> rec.audio.high-end but best in Audio-Asylum.
> People here do not believe that tube technology has any advantage
> over solid state design soundwise, exept for guitar amps.

Almost true. Sure for guitar amps, its inescapable that tubes are part
of the sound, even when set "clean". However, for hi-fi, some people
simply prefer the distortion/characteristics of a "clean" tube amp, so
in this sense it may be considered advantages. There is no psychological
reason why exact reproduction should be considered "better". However,
there is no advantage if one simple wants a piece of wire with gain.

>And we
> regard the "Audiophools" as a certain kind of slightly disturbed
> persons with unscientific attitudes and little technical knowledge,
> which seems to meet your observation of those authors as well.

Indeed.

Kevin Aylward
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