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RE: "Not using a transistor headphone amp"

Wrong! I am currently using a transistor headphone amp, just as I always have. I always insist on owning both SS and tube gear together and at once. The Keces HA-171 SS headphone amp/preamp I currently own provides it's own unique listening perspective, but in the overall sense, it sounds more similar to than different from the DNA Sonett SET tube amp I also use. I also own the Headroom Buda SS headphone amp, although it is not currently being used by me.

When I say "listening perspective", I'm mostly thinking about relative "forwardness" and relative "distance". One amp seems to put me closer to the music, the other seems to let me sit farther away from it. I've never been one to get stuck on a certain type of listening perspective, but I do insist on using gear that seems to move out of the way of the music as much as possible - even though such a thing is not entirely possible. I choose my headphones and my amplification based on the type of music I'm listening to, for the slight edge one combination of gear provides over the other combination in a given circumstance.

Back on topic, it seems as if you're saying that tubes and Solid State, while never sounding exactly the same, do not necessarily sound completely different either. Obviously, I would tend to agree with that idea. I still think that a significant amount of "convergence" is possible when tube and SS amp designers try very hard to compete with one another.



Edits: 10/23/14

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