RE: What'd your ears say?

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Posted by wazoo (A) on August 2, 2020 at 08:54:37

In Reply to: What'd your ears say? posted by grantv on July 28, 2020 at 08:10:35:

Take this with the appropriate grains of salt, but my singular experience in the context of my own system was replacing a Pass X350 with a VAC Phi 300.1 and my initial impression was that it sounded amazingly similar. Over time, I teased out subtle subjective differences, but I was not blind to which amp was which and one could say that I had a vested interest in preferring the amp for which I had most recently shelled out 5 figures.

So, I think it probably has less to do with tubes vs transistors and more to do with design and execution, not to mention synergy with the load presented by the speakers. I have no regrets about purchasing that valve amp and I'm sure it was the finest piece of HiFi gear I will ever own, but I can't say that I really miss it either. The experience satisfied a yearning and a curiosity, which translated into more satisfaction with the solid state amps.

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