Yeah, 'cause the quality "advantage" is only there for those who wish to hear it. Sound coloring is not an advantage, it's just different sound, and solid-state amps are a cleaner-sounding technology at least. Nevertheless THIS amp's price is reasonable enough to buy it just for the curiosity/cool looking factor.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Using the headphone output basically negates the quality benefit of a tube-based amp.
Completely!
They aren't even using the line out of the ipod, a shame really. Looks like a decent amp too.
Yeah, 'cause the quality "advantage" is only there for those who wish to hear it. Sound coloring is not an advantage, it's just different sound, and solid-state amps are a cleaner-sounding technology at least. Nevertheless THIS amp's price is reasonable enough to buy it just for the curiosity/cool looking factor.
Not like you'll hear any difference through those horns.
God horns suck so bad.
And then you toss on the tube amp...
Yuck.
...thats because it not made exclusively for the ipod.