Tube Amps versus Solid State Amps

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Steve Eddy

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Re: Tube Amps versus Solid State Amps
« Reply #80 on: 26 Nov 2007, 04:53 pm »
Hey Duke!

Good job!

Sorry for throwing my hands up earlier, but the conversation was getting to the point that I didn't see it going any further and that you needed to do a little hands-on in order to get a better picture of what's going on.

Don't know why your speaker modeling program didn't work. Does it have you input the driver's Qts or does it calculate it itself from Qes and Qms?

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Re: Tube Amps versus Solid State Amps
« Reply #81 on: 26 Nov 2007, 08:01 pm »
Thanks, Steve! 

That post was more work than it looks like.  The hard part was getting the data into a format and file-size that I could post.  It's one of those things that's a piece of cake once you know how, but a piece of something else until then.

In retrospect, I don't think the modelling program was at fault after all.  I must have not read the data correctly - I was probably comparing absolute SPL in the bass region instead of comparing the levels relative to the midband efficiency.  Anyway when I re-ran the program this morning and carefully compared the relative levels I could see a pattern similar to what I observed, though the increases were still less than what I measured. 

Duke
« Last Edit: 26 Nov 2007, 08:19 pm by Duke »