Yes, I too feel the vac amps are somewhat hard. I have heard the 30/30 and it did sound hard.Also heard the 80/80 and it too was hard.I know this will upset vac owners but this has been my experience with vac. Possibly comes from their use of silver coated wire. In my experience this type of wire is always hard or grainy
VAC amps-grainy ?
gentlemen- i own the vac pa 35/35 triode tube amp w/killer n.o.s. tubes. a dealer of s.e.t. wavac amps told me that he felt vac's were grainy ?! i've never felt this or heard this before. i hold him of my idea of replacing the volume control function on my AA ddev3.0 dac. it can sound sligtly hard when really pushed. i'm going to replace it with the ft audio lw-1 passive line stage. my speakers are the smooth-sounding silverline sonatinas. i also have the smooth shunyata blk mamba&sidewinder powers cords. any comments on the source of this hardness in my system or the vac being "grainy". thanks mike [email protected]