Hi Will
I would be interested in your list of good tube amps that fall short of ss in the areas of clarity, speed and dynamics and even detail, my you have me curious. You might want to hear a good OTL design with a proper load to put that assumption to further test. This aside from your preference of ss over the warm, even ordered distortion characteristics of tube circuits. btw, the Atmas-pheres have among the fastest slew rates of any amp, period.
I am a big fan of the Counterpoint hybrids amps from the 80's. Mike Elliott truly got the best out of those designs other than their tendency towards premature failure (mosfets). The SA-100 was the best 1K amp that I can recall in its day.
I would be interested in your list of good tube amps that fall short of ss in the areas of clarity, speed and dynamics and even detail, my you have me curious. You might want to hear a good OTL design with a proper load to put that assumption to further test. This aside from your preference of ss over the warm, even ordered distortion characteristics of tube circuits. btw, the Atmas-pheres have among the fastest slew rates of any amp, period.
I am a big fan of the Counterpoint hybrids amps from the 80's. Mike Elliott truly got the best out of those designs other than their tendency towards premature failure (mosfets). The SA-100 was the best 1K amp that I can recall in its day.