I moved from Burmester 911 to the 218's
how the heck does a 'Porsche guy' ever move away from a '911' ?

I moved from Burmester 911 to the 218's
it was a difficult decision but the 218 is simply betterhow the heck does a 'Porsche guy' ever move away from a '911' ?![]()
What Speakers and Preamp are you using with the Class D amp ..?(Don't think I've posted on this thread previously ...)
I've never had a tube power amp though I've had a couple of tube preamps. Presently for the latter I'm using a Sonic Frontiers Line 1 with 'SE+' upgrades by Parts ConneXion and, at this moment, Golden Lion tubes in the gain stage -- very nice but not especially "tubey".
I've had a fair number of power amps over 50+ years which have all been solid state; that has included several class D amps starting over 20 years ago. Nowadays it's a Purifi 1E400A-based stereo amp from VTV with VTV i/o buffers with Sparkos SS3602 op amps. It's my best amp so far, beating out my last class A/B which was a Pass Labs X150.5.
Scott knew what they were doing. Their head engineer when your stuff was built was Daniel von Recklinghausen, who is famous for his insight "If it measures good and sounds bad, — it is bad. If it sounds good and measures bad, — you've measured the wrong thing." You can imagine he was careful to also listen to the designs..HH Scott tube amps for me, first heard a demo of them against the mighty McIntosh 275 ( I forgot what the Mac pre was) but playing each one through to Klipsch Cornwall speakers I was flabbergasted to what I was hearing! Blew me away!