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The First Watt Is the Most Important Watt.

If the first watt doesn't sound good, then all the rest are nothing but numbers. I would rather have a tube watt than any solid state watt. There is a distortion not being measured that only the ears can hear. Listener fatigue is not measurable either, but it exists.
There is a difference between first listening, and long term listening. Sometimes what sounds good for 5 minutes will eat away at you in the long run.
Having said that, a watt is a watt. I have a Dyanco Stereo 70 II that I wouldn't trade for the world, but I can't push it into low efficiency Magnapan 10.1 speakers and expect it to produce the same volume that a SS amp can make without audible clipping. I still prefer to listen to the tube amp at a lower volume for my long term musical enjoyment though.

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