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  • Solid State (Class A, AB, D, AD, etc.)

    176 60.27%
  • Tube

    62 21.23%
  • Hybrid

    16 5.48%
  • Both (you rotate SS and Tube amps in and out of your system)

    53 18.15%
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  1. #151
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Solid state Class AB integrated.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Thanks for sharing this amps solid state.

  3. #153

    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Currently I am using SS. However, I do appreciate Tube amplifiers as well.
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Been solid state for years; mostly McIntosh.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    I have been using tube amps and preamps for 20 years. My Toolshed Amps 300b is the best piece of gear I have owned to date. I just sold my Zesto Leto to make way for a new Toolshed Amps 101d Line Stage that is being built now. Don't think I could ever go back to SS after these. I'm done buying amps ....

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Quote Originally Posted by Oddiofyl View Post
    I have been using tube amps and preamps for 20 years. My Toolshed Amps 300b is the best piece of gear I have owned to date. I just sold my Zesto Leto to make way for a new Toolshed Amps 101d Line Stage that is being built now. Don't think I could ever go back to SS after these. I'm done buying amps ....
    Not a fan of the engraving that is used on the Toolshed products but otherwise looks to be rather good gear.
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Thanks, I understand that it's looks are very polarizing but it is really built to a different standard. It is entirely handmade , the inside is as nice the outside from a design and layout perspective. It sounds amazing, and it is dead silent. No self noise or mechanical hum which is a true feat for a 300b amp

    Matt was great to work with, he truly delivers a bespoke product. The fit and finish is heirloom quality. Execution and detail of the highest order.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Thay look great

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    For my speakers definitely Class A SS works best.
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    I am all solid state now. I have tried many of all types over the years. McIntosh solid state does the trick for me!

    PS. I do have a Fender tube guitar amplifier .
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Here are my 4 HH Scott amps driving a pair of Cornscala's. Only 1 at a time, of course..IMG_0077.jpeg

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Ok, I'll play....... pair of PASS X260.8's
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    My preferred setup uses a pair of Pass Labs 60.8's. I found that using Analysis Plus Silver Apex from source to speakers gives me the exact sound I want. I do occasionally listen to my MA-352 hybrid through Kimber when I want a more mellow sound, which isn't often!
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    I have tried a few. CJ Premier 140, Rogue, Audion 845, Altec 1570B, Atmasphere Class D, Dartzeel NHB108.
    It finally took a small shop builder to blow the socks off me to hopefully settle on an endgame amp.

    Back up a little. I was introduced to Jazdoc years ago by Joe P (RIP). Joe needed an electrician to wire Jazdocs room. And so it began my Electrical dive into powering audio systems. Anyhow, Jazfocs system struck me. I never again heard the chest of a sax player. Or their lips working the reed. I always thought it was the Daedalus speakers.
    Cut to the PNWAF this year. Scott with Found Music, the designer and builder of the amp Jazdoc uses was visiting and brought amps for people to listen too. I was one of them. About 4 or 5 songs in and I was confident what was playing in my room exceeded every display I heard at the audio show. All of them reguardless of price. I bought the amps that night at dinner. I should have my pair in about 5 weeks. In the interim I sold my Dartzeel.

    FWIW this amp does not sound SS or class D. It sounds tube. But OMG, its absolute magic. The details, life, natural preaence are unmatched by anything I have ever heard.
    I don't know what it is about modern electronics today. Tube and SS have sort of blended into a very similar sound. Hard to tell them apart. The Found Music Blade amp is more like a large bottle amp pusing horns. A very different type of detail. Another selling point is its 55 watts using 2 x KT88. Yea yea, you don't like a KT88. If I have to toss the power tubes every 3000 hours, Im only out $250 for both monoblocks. The mercury vapor rectifier and driver are about $40 each and last 10,000 hours.

    FWIW, Scott of Found Music has influenced my electrical work. Because of him, when I strip and rebuild a panelboard before sale, I polish the surface to surface contacts to a mirror finish. Something he does to every lead in his amps. Its a detail that matters.

    So long story short, I am back to tubes and confident I wont ever have to change again. I feel done. Time to focus more on tuning the room with double drywall, multi glaze windows, floor supports etc.
    Rex

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Currently using Classe Delta MONO amps with a HifiRose RA180 integrated GanFet class D for backup. Love the Classe amps. These replaced a Parasound JC5 and sound more natural and more detailed at the same time.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kingrex View Post
    ... The Found Music Blade amp is more like a large bottle amp pusing horns. A very different type of detail. Another selling point is its 55 watts using 2 x KT88...
    sounds interesting, post some pics of it.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Quote Originally Posted by puroagave View Post
    sounds interesting, post some pics of it.
    Agree and a URL to actually go read about the specs
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    About - Found Music

    My pair are a few weeks out. He wants to burn the new Monolith transformers in for about 500 hours.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    Burmester 911mk3, solid state, class a/b
    Burmester 911mk3 amplifier
    Burmester 077 pre-amp
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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    FWIW, each 55 watt monoblock is around 70 lbs. Massive amounts of Monolith iron. Heavy stainless case. They are larger than you think.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    I voted solid state, because that's what my power amps are (tube preamp).

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    While I use both tube and SS, I do not rotate them in an out of the system, per se. If meaning, in the poll that one of the amps is physically inserted or removed from the system prior to listening to music.

    I have them both connected and switch between the two by turning one or the other on during a listening session.

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    Re: What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

    I now have the Michi 8 amps. Solid State.

    ozzy

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