Originally Posted by
Haselsh1
It's good that we agree Neil but I do understand that our individual appreciation of how our music is represented is totally personal to each of us. Clearly they were my findings over a period of thirty years or so and clearly you share those findings. For me, valves have a quite unique sound all of their own which again for me make them way superior to transistors. They do not though have that gut wrenching bass excitement. I made my final decision late last year.
I fully appreciate your point, it is personal. Valves just don't give a full range sound with most modern speakers as they are just too insensitive, for the obvious and basic reason that solid state watts are cheap. The economics of getting high sensitivity speakers to run a low powered valve amplifier make no sense to me. With good 86db speakers and oodles of power, there is no need to compromise and I don't miss my Class A 300B-XLS amp one bit. When I think what is cost it makes me want to cry.
Wilson, Luxman, Innuos, Holo May, Puritan, Garrard