Comment by glimshe
4 days ago
Just get one of those "hi fi" valve amplifiers from Amazon you see under $100. The valve already distorts the sound, so you don't need to bother paying more for low distortion anywhere else in the audio chain. Saved you thousands of dollars, done!
Distortion is why people love the sound of vinyl.
And its all good! It's perfectly fine to say "I prefer the sound when the whole mix (or just that guitar) ends up being subject to interesting and possibly harmonically relevant distortion at low levels".
Just don't say "The version with the distortion is more accurate than the one without", because that's a lie.