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

What type of amp do you use?

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I run solid state pre and power amps by choice, since I have had incredibly bad luck with tube gear maintenance. However I feel that you can get good sounding tube gear at a lower price point, and to achieve a similar level of musicality and listenability can be far more expensive with solid state gear. To each their own!
 
I use parallel push-pull triode amps (2 x 15 W) for my main speakers, high-efficiency mini-monitors, but my subwoofer has a 150 W SS amp built-in. I would vote hybrid, but it''s not really a hybrid amp. I couldn't vote both because I don't rotate as specified, so I'm rather dissatisfied with the poll choices. I therefore abstain from the poll, any vote that I would cast would not really represent my system.
 
squalid state preamps/tube power amp

every time i go back to SS preamps I feel like I took 2 steps forward in one dept and 2-3 steps backward somewhere else. i have a tube power amp because i need tubes somewhere, they always bring a certain 'humanity' to the music.
 
puroagave said:
squalid state preamps/tube power amp

every time i go back to SS preamps I feel like I took 2 steps forward in one dept and 2-3 steps backward somewhere else. i have a tube power amp because i need tubes somewhere, they always bring a certain 'humanity' to the music.
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Agreed - tubes somewhere in the chain are a necessity - I like them closer to the source. And easier that way since tube amps never quite gripped my speakers and always threw a lot of heat.
 
Solid state amplifiers and pre-amps.

I have neither the time nor the interest to play with and roll tubes.

I spend my time actually listening to the music, not the components.
 
As of now, my main amps are ALL purely solid state.

That said, I always make sure to keep a tube somewhere in the chain. That's just my bias. :)
 
Solid state, always have been. I recently heard a high-end tube system (Aesthetix, though I think their amplifier is a hybrid design) and I certainly understand the appeal, it just didn't suit my own taste. Or budget, for that matter.
 
Is dilithium core antimatter flux generator an option to choose here? Vanishing distortion and unparalleled musicality is the hallmark of this topology.
 
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