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From tubes to solid state. What do you loose...


...if your priories are transparency, timbral acuracy, micro dynamics and soundstage? I am hesitant to give-up on my Sonic Frontiers Power 2, but buying tubes every so often can be quite expensive. The current tubes offered (Sovtek, Svetlana, EH) are short-lived and not cheap either. I will probably stay with tube pre-amp and go with the ss amps, like Mark Levinson...?
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brauser
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What do you loose? Headaches, hassle and hernia(s). Just kidding. At the top, there's not a lot of difference between the two. At more realistic levels solid state designs tend to do bass better, while tubes typically give a terrific midrange. I, however, have decided to meet in the middle and have gone with hybrid tube equipment. Thus I get some of the best of both worlds while not realizing the best of either.
Trade-offs! I hate those stinkin' trade-offs!
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