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In Reply to: RE: FMA posted by A.Wayne on September 30, 2015 at 07:17:47
" IMO no tooby matches top notch SS for realism and drive"
Not sure what you mean by realism here because that is absolutely NOT what I hear...tone is all wrong, microdynamics wrong, 3d imaging wrong...just wrong. Drive? I guess if your speakers use bat poop for drivers (pretty close to 0db/watt sensitivity I would guess) and need 50 amps of current then ok but for dynamics a good tube amps SOUNDS much more open and free dynamically...on suitable speaker of course...;-).
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SET, the alchemist choice ..... :)In case you missed the current trend , most Horn speakers are now being demoed with SS, including the mega buck Magico.
Edits: 09/30/15
Only here and there...tubes dominate horn demos...
Alon Wolf seems to be a tube denier so no surprise there. Most concluded that the room didn't sound so great (could have just been WAY too loud). For sure the speaker has serious potential...as it should for mega bucks.
As for Avantgarde, they like their own, homegrown SS but I have never heard them sound very good with their own amps. They sounded GREAT this year in Munich with a Lampizator DAC and AudioPAX monos. Really truly Great.
Tune Audio Anima used a Modwright SS amp (the rest behind was tube though) and it was significantly worse than the year before where it was all tubes.
The rest of the big horns at Munich used tubes.
The Line Magnetic WE replica horns sounded amazing with huge LM amps at a show in 2013 in Switzerland.
The REAL WE horns with Silbatone was utterly beguiling and literally brought tears to my wifes eyes when a Russian opera singer came on.
The big daddy Living Voice was its usual unbeatable self running a full Kondo rig this year.
Acapella always demos with Einstein in Europe
So, I am not sure beyond the one Magico and Avantgarde who is running SS regularly on horns. That said, I would think the First Watt SIT-1 would have serious potential on horns...as I said I am not opposed to transistors per se...just how they are typically used.
"The REAL WE horns with Silbatone was utterly beguiling and literally brought tears to my wifes eyes when a Russian opera singer came on."
-Morricab
Was this a mono or stereo demonstration ... ?
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