Jeff:

I really don't want to get into a tube/transistor debate! Suffice to say that I have a system that is considered as a whole - the parts complement each other. I have arrived at my particular configuration after day-to-day direct contact with the orchestral music I work with, and what I have, including the tubed equipment, translates that sound to me from the musicians on the scoring stage to my room with the best representation of timbre, soundstaging and dynamics. Isn't that the whole idea?

Any generalizations such as "all tube gear distorts the sound" or "all solid state gear sounds hard and brittle" is nonsense, because it simply is not true in either case. There are good and bad examples of both technologies. I use whatever gets me closest to my goals, tube or transistor, analog or digital.



[This message has been edited by soundhound (edited July 30, 2003).]