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Tubes/SS Power Amps?


I've only heard, auditioned, listened to top of the line tube amps; consequently, I don't know squat about top of the line SS power amps. My problem is "heat". If the SS gets hot, I might as well have tubes.

Reviews that I've read on top of the line SS amps, always mention the heat. Rather than have a SS furnace in my listening room, I'll go with tubes. By the way, I don't think there's much difference between tubes and SS amps when you have a tube pre; especially top of the line. I'm searching for an amp in the vicinity of 100 watts per channel with balanced inputs, preferably mono blocks. Cool running SS is what I'm looking for. Can you help?
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tobb
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Prop I would have tended to agree with tubes for the Pre until the unveiling of Coda's new 7X. Its use of very high end double gated FETs with high impedance are very tube like.
Then add their new 7E virtual battery power supply do at the end of 2013.
I have ran a 15.0 for ten months and it barely gets warm even after twelve hours of use.
Codas are like Maytags! lol
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