Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
The sound has all the attributes that some seek from valves. It's warm and extremely airy, what might be might be described as 'rose tinted' sound. Certainly not in my view an accurate representation of music.

incidentally, it will be driving only the top end, comprising 16ohm HF1300 tweeters partnered with 16ohm Japanese HF horns. The bass end will be solid state powered and I'll be using passive crossovers. I may also play around with some type of supertweeter arrangement.
Cool... Your second paragraph explains it, and I can see where you're going. I also think it will work nicely

However, I'm firmly NOT in the camp of liking valves to sound 'warm' or 'rose tinted'; 'cuddly', etc, indeed the best examples of such don't. For me, those are not attributes, but rather negatives... TBH, valve amps which sound like that give the 'side' a bad name!

Marco.