What's the greatest bargain in SET these days?

Charles1Dad,
Point clearly stated, I could not agree more.

For everyone else My comments were merely stating the obvious and re confirming what a pleasure it is to find something in this price range that is truly good.

Tubegroover,
Your comment about the Lamm/Coincident Frankenstein owner is interesting. I know the Lamm can drive speakers that the Frankenstein would find difficult to handle. If the speaker is an appropriate match the Frankenstein can hold its own on purely music making/emotional engagement grounds.Is that Lamm owner actually going to return to the Frankenstein?
Charles,

No doubt that things need not be perfect from a technical perspective in order for good music to be made. Happens all the time. Most everything has some limitations. The key is to understand what they are and how they may or may not be relevant case by case.

The Coincident is a very nice product. SO is the Glow. Newer Glows advertise two inputs compared to one in older models which might be of value in this case plus they come in still for several hundred dollars less, not a trivial amount if product is suitable. I do not recall what speakers I heard it with but they were smaller monitor types and sound was top notch. I've heard other similar wattage amps drive Nola BOxer monitors similarly well also. I've also heard similar amp drive Zu Essence, which are larger and more efficient and still thought the amp was underpowered for rock music even based on what I heard. Jazz and acoustic music in general sounded great. The Zu guy there even admitted the SET was probably not optimal for all kinds of music. I had to ask for him to play some Rush as a test. I think the vendors like to play to audiophile desires for more exotic gear, like SETs, sometimes, knowing that like most things there will be limitations.

Mapman,
Thanks for the heads up on the Glow One/Two. Another promising (bargain) amp that can apparently do justice to the music with the right speakers. I really enjoyed the 6 Moons review.

My gut feeling is that the Glow is a good sounding SEP (single ended pentode, el84) and likely a step above the Dennis Had offerings. The Glow weighs 14.3 pounds, uses small amounts of NFB anc has solid state rectification. The Dynamo weighs 22 pounds, zero NFB and is tube rectified. The Dynamo's 50% weight gain is in all likelihood bigger and heftier transformers. As had been noted before, transformer quality and capacity can make or break these single ended amplifiers. It would be very worthwhile to compare these two differently designed amplifiers in the same system. Design differences aside, I'd like to hear what distinguishes one from the other.
Charles,