I have to disagree with Muralman1 about Pass X. I think these amps are indeed relatively lean in the midrange compared to some other amps, certainly to certain tube amps or hybrid amps. I'm talking "body" in vocals, "wood" in cellos, "resonance" in piano middle registers, and so on, especially when the reference sound is the real thing. The Pass X series is a very clean and well-made amp, but is leaner than the Aleph. I've noticed its lean midrange character even when using tube preamps and tubed CD players to feed it.
Mosfet amps A true compromise betw. tubes and SS?
I heard from several people that Mosfet SS amps are a nice compromise between tubes and SS amps.
There is one manufacturer in particular I am interested
http://www.wbe-audio.de,s croll down to Fusion 700 (its a German made amp, but he has an English web page) who calls his hybrid amp a Mono tube mosfet amp.
I would really appreciate if someone who has more insight would tell me a bit more of advantages and shortcomings of this design and if the claim: "sound of tubes with power of SS" is true or not. Also I would like to know if these are fast amps, as I plan to maybe use them with my ML Prodigy, should the Wolcott amps, I bought recently, not work satisfactorily.
There is one manufacturer in particular I am interested
http://www.wbe-audio.de,s croll down to Fusion 700 (its a German made amp, but he has an English web page) who calls his hybrid amp a Mono tube mosfet amp.
I would really appreciate if someone who has more insight would tell me a bit more of advantages and shortcomings of this design and if the claim: "sound of tubes with power of SS" is true or not. Also I would like to know if these are fast amps, as I plan to maybe use them with my ML Prodigy, should the Wolcott amps, I bought recently, not work satisfactorily.
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