Jeff Rowland Sound


I just installed a pair of model 6 monoblocks driving a pair of usher rw729 monitors and then put them on my soundlab m2's;the results of which I never experienced with a solid state amp of this quality as I am a tube guy;my question basically is
how does his amps of today sound vs the model 6 and the other amps produced during their time?
rleff

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John and G have either one of you ever listened to Pass or any Boulder amps;if so how would you compare it to rowland gear? I am just wondering as I have never heard either one.
I again want to thank everyone for their posting;also Flg2001 what does the Gryphon amps do that the rowlands did not do for you;are you still using the same speakers that the rowlands were driving?
Thanks G for the feedback-I just looked at the other amps and had no idea that the pricing goes to 30k;wow!!!!!
have you heard those amps?
Philjolet-I will focus on the soundlabs as they are my primary speakers and just obtained the ushers;I'm not familiar with their sonic signature being driven by tubes.
My m2's were driven by Cary Slam 100's.Manley Ref 400 mono's and now Audio Valve Challanger 180 mono's;output tubes on the cary's and 180's were/are jj kt88's and 6550c's
on the Manleys.
I listen to mostly acoustic,vocals,jazz,organ with choir and sometimes Pink Floyd will visit.
I seem to really enjoy the midrange sound that tube owners seem to fall in love with;as that was the hook that moved me from solid state to tubes after auditioning a MFA-D75 amp.My solid state amps were David Hafler dh-500, Forte model 4,B&k M200 sonata mono's and then McCormack DNA-1 monoblocks;these amps were all very good with the dna-1's being the best of the 3 driving at the time Merlin 4B+'s;until I heard the MFA.
Now with the model 6 monoblocks I think this is as close to
being able to reproduce that liquid midrange as I have ever heard with great control of the panel over the entire frequency range;as Jmcgrogan2 called it "musicality".
I have never heard any of his products and if this is his older work I can only imagine what his newer products sound like.