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Marco
All this of course ably shows that there's no such thing as the 'perfect amplifier', so as with anything else in audio, all you can do is choose your compromises!
On the subject of valves, however, I will say (as experience has shown it) that hybrid and/or OTL designs, certainly those I've heard, no matter how much they excel in certain areas, don't sound like the best valve amps should, which is why, as much as I acknowledge what they're capable of doing well, I haven't gone down that road.
It's an old saying in audio, but quite simply, there's no 'free lunch', when attempting to build an amplifier that on paper is seemingly devoid of any of the vices of either valve or solid-state technology, or is touted as being the 'best of both worlds', as in reality that just doesn't exist.
Marco.
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