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One thing to point out...

When it comes to most of these sonic arguments I often wonder why people gravitate to one thing or the other.

The prices of good audio equipment has dropped. Yes the best costs money but today's affordable stuff is quite doable for audiophiles. So why not have our cake and eat it?

One is not limited to one CD player or one DAC or one kind of amplifier. As a reviewer I am trying to buy a SS based stereo systems as well as a valve based one. I would also like a variety of speakers on hand to compare. But anyone can do that.

Fred Crowder on our staff owns some big Acapella Triolon speakers and directly compared $60,000 SS power amps (arguably some of the best SS in the business from Pass Labs) VS 300B SET power amps. One does some things better the other does some things better.

But heading on down to those of us on meager finances you can get a pretty good 300B SET amplifier from the likes of Audio Note for about $2200. Kit One.

You can then go out and buy a second hand Rotel RB 1090 (1KW into 1ohm) ($2000 new in 2006) weighing in at 100lbs or perhaps a Parasound A21 power amp.

Or newer and cheaper Emotiva XPR-2 which pumps out 1000 watts at 4ohms
And hey to many if its distortion is below the threshold of human hearing JND then they all sound the same so for $1799 it will drive anything and the measurements indicate no one can tell it apart from any more expensive exotic name brands. (measurements is all that matters in the world of SS since no one can hear the difference in controlled level matched tests).
Assuming Emotiva is reliable then here you go - Mahler is covered with pretty much any speaker

Now you have your "precious pretty" SET amplifier as well as your slam your "slam bang" amplifier and you're under $5k for both and at nearly the flip of a switch. Best of all you have a back-up amp should one of the two ever fail.

Check out this power amp!

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