http://audiograveyard.info/home-theater/do-tube-amplifiers-save-energy All About vintage pro audio Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:26:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://audiograveyard.info/home-theater/do-tube-amplifiers-save-energy#comment-838 djw Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:18:30 +0000 http://audiograveyard.info/home-theater/do-tube-amplifiers-save-energy#comment-838 Tubes are far more inefficient than transistors and use power to heat the tube all the time, whereas transistors only use power when necessary. In this case though the tube amplifier is likely to use less than the transistor amplifier. Tubes are far more inefficient than transistors and use power to heat the tube all the time, whereas transistors only use power when necessary.
In this case though the tube amplifier is likely to use less than the transistor amplifier.

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