Tube Amp w/Solid State Pre-Amp ?????

59: you'll have to be extremely careful what amp you use with the spectral. the wide bandwidth of the spectral gear is a difficult load for tube driver circuits. depending on the amp, you could have components actually fail in that circuit. of course this is just my opinion, but i think it would be somewhat of a waste of the high speed of the spectral by matching it with a tube amp. of course it depends on your specific taste and what speakers you would be using. hope this helps. tim

Conventional wisdoms state that if you use solid state and tubes together that the preamp should be tube and the amp solid state. In my second system I use an Audio Research VT100 amp(tube) with a Macintosh preamp(ss) with electrostats(also a difficult load to drive)with excellent results. I still get the benefit of the tube sound and the speed and accuracy of solid state.It works in my system,but as always, you will have to try it in your system to see if it works for you.Good luck

Just remember Spectral preamps are designed and recommended to be mated with Spectral amps.