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Originally Posted by PHC1
Take any budget tube amp and connect it to a pair of speakers it is comfortable driving. What you will get is a musical, perhaps an overly colorful presentation due to budget components of lesser resolving capabilities.
Take a budget solid state amp and do the same test. What you get is typically a very cold and sterile presentation lacking any tonal density or harmonic beauty.
I have heard and lived with $200 tube amps for years with great satisfaction. I could not live with any budget solid state... 
Take a vintage tube amp from the earliest period, again with speakers appropriate for that vintage tube amp. Now take the earliest solid state of the late 60s/early 70's and tell me what sound like music and what doesn't  |
What if you take current state of the art Solid State and compare it to current state of the art Tube gear? The DartZeel SS stuff sounds pretty darn good ... wish I could afford it! LOL
That said I agree that budget tube gear generally blows away budget SS gear.
George