what makes vacuum tubes the better choice for some application (most notably an amp for music) over more modern options?
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For guitar amplifiers, the distortion is the point. The best way to think about it is that the amp isn’t there to make the guitar louder, it’s an integral part of the instrument. The guitarist plays the amp as much as the guitar to get the sound that he wants. Tubes distort in pleasing ways to make sounds for electric guitar. You can accomplish much of the same using a pedal board, but overdriving tubes was how it was originally done.
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