what makes vacuum tubes the better choice for some application (most notably an amp for music) over more modern options?
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When it comes to amps, vacuum tubes are analog and as such tend to have a more pleasing sound to the human ear even as they distort at higher volumes. Transistors tend to be louder and crisper at high volumes.
Also being analog they don’t suffer any losses or distortion from an analog to digital (and back to analog) conversion.
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