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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
And anyway, we're being constantly told that we don't need much volume any more - just mic it and put it through the PA.
The big problem with low-powered valve amps or high-powered ones running at low volume is that they're much less efficient than high-power amps running at high volume because the valve filament current draw (which is constant irrespective of volume) is then the greatest energy use, not the signal power - and significantly less efficient than solid-state amps, where the power draw is much more closely related to the output volume.
A 100W valve amp might be about as efficient as a 200W solid-state amp when both are running loud, but a 50W solid-state amp is going to be more efficient than a 15W valve one at any volume.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Surely this is based more on the majority of households having a vacuum cleaner, so reducing the watts where they aren't necessary (plenty of lower powered well designed vacuum cleaners) would make a noticeable difference across the board. I don't know what the rate of high powered guitar amps would be pee household across Europe but i cant imagine it being as much of a problem?
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I believe it's the space inside the valve allows the tone to move and develop, which is clearly can't do in a transistor. This is why vintage valves are better, as the space itself is vintage.
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Or more accurately, he said something like "fragile harmonics cannot survive in the crystal lattice of a transistor".
Despite using a JFET input buffer for at least one of his amps, right where you would think the fragile harmonics most need to be preserved...
Or he might have been taking the piss, because I think it was in the notorious Henry Kaiser video.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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(b) Yeah. I'm frankly surprised my own patented method of environmentally-friendly vacuuming hasn't caught on. Just don't ever vacuum.
(c) Oh absolutely, I realise that. But eventually the one you currently have will wear out and die, and you'll have to buy a new one. Unless people are going to keep like 10 unopened NOS vacuum cleaners in their closets.
So basically we need to get the EU to force us all to buy 100 watt full stacks (more speakers = slightly more volume, right?) and crank them all the time, right?
Are they going to force us to buy vintage 30s? Or eminence because they're optimistically-rated? Is eminence secretly in league with the EU?
:-S