I heard one at the T.H.E. Show a couple of weeks ago, in a room with Lowther Academy speakers, run with an analog(VPI) front end.
Frankly, I wasn't impressed, and apparently neither was the exhibitor, because the next time I went back into the room, it was gone, and replaced with an Exemplar Audio 300B amp. This 300B amp sounded quite a bit better than the Pass First Watt amp did.
I know that the show environment is not the best way to listen to the true performance of many things, but in this case it was easy to spot the difference of the amp when it was switched out to a 300B amp, and the rest of the system remained the same. Not even close.
Frankly, I wasn't impressed, and apparently neither was the exhibitor, because the next time I went back into the room, it was gone, and replaced with an Exemplar Audio 300B amp. This 300B amp sounded quite a bit better than the Pass First Watt amp did.
I know that the show environment is not the best way to listen to the true performance of many things, but in this case it was easy to spot the difference of the amp when it was switched out to a 300B amp, and the rest of the system remained the same. Not even close.