This is about a guitar amplifier. This is not for Audiophiles. A guitar amplifier is not a hi-fi amplifier, but a part of the instrument. It is not supposed to reproduce a sound neutrally, but is part of the sound production. Therefore, non-linarities and certain distortions are desired here, which are more likely to occur with tube amplifiers than with high-quality transistor amplifiers.
There are also guitar amplifiers that emulate these 'non-ideal' amplifier characteristics with digital signal processing.
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