As with Rushton everything I have comes with tubes. 75% classical orchestral, small groups, and vocal, and 25% jazz instrumental and vocal. My bigget priority is getting the system set up to reproduce the range from 200 hz to 3000 hz as smoothly and cleanly as possible, but I don't mind a bit of really crunching bass for Mahler etc. SS just has not done it for me in the mid/high range. It has always seem sort of flat and undimensional, whereas tubes have been more spacious sounding an more natural. I never buy pop music - if thats on my agenda I find it on the tuner and only then for background.
What do tube and music have in comon?
I've always wondered about why there's solid state and tube? So many people are into ss and so are them about tube. Maybe it's the music taste?
So here is the question. What kind of music do you really listen, beside all the chase for high end gears?
I do like my tube equipment when they sing all the classical music. Opera are great as well. Favorite composers would be Mahler, Shostakovich, Bruckner, Smetana, Bach.... and so on. Jazz sound fine as well, but not outstanding. Pop music doesn't sound good in the system.
So here is the question. What kind of music do you really listen, beside all the chase for high end gears?
I do like my tube equipment when they sing all the classical music. Opera are great as well. Favorite composers would be Mahler, Shostakovich, Bruckner, Smetana, Bach.... and so on. Jazz sound fine as well, but not outstanding. Pop music doesn't sound good in the system.