Originally Posted by
Sada Yairi
That doesn't seem right to me. Lately I've been playing around with two amps - a 5watt class A and a 15watt ss. The tube is significantly louder than the ss, so a 1:3 ratio doesn't seem right. I'm just not sufficiently versed with ss amps above 15watts to know what the 5watt tube compares to. Seems to me 5watt class A has to be on par with at least 25watts of ss.
At the same time, what you say about pushing the relative amps is certainly true. Pushing a solid-state is not pretty.