Wally wrote:
Nick Gorham wrote:


Not to the same extent no.I am talking about the single device, not
that a amplifier made of them or any other active device can't be
linear.


So the thing that makes a triode amp better isn't the fact that the device
itself is linear, but that it takes less additional componentry to make it
operate in a linear fashion compared to other amps/devices?



Well I am not trying to speak in a authoritive way what makes a triode
"better", but I think your above point is somewhat circular. Its the
fact that its linear that means that it doesn't need additional
components to make it operate in a linear fashion. the few additional
components are not their to make it linear, but to make it a amplifier.
The one point is that it doesn't need global feedback to become
acceptably linear, but thats a whole new flame war.

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Nick