Is hybrid power amp the way to go ?


What are the advantages and disadvantages ? Ypsilon, Absolare and some other people think that the advantages outweigh or they would be working with tubes only. Lamm makes hybrids too in addition to all tube SETs.
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Hybrid amps ’could’ be the way to go, depending on the speakers, room size, listening levels, and personal tastes.

Obviously, there is a very large speaker market out there that SET tube amps just cannot satisfy. Not that SET amps can’t sound wonderful with the right speakers, however, SET’s do limit your speaker choices.
Someone has to make the amps to drive the speakers that SET amps can’t drive.
There are other tube designs that will drive many speakers, yet some top designers decided to make tubes and transistors work together. This is in fact quite unexpected for me, I thought that beyond certain level it makes little sense to use transistors from purely audiophile point of view unless you have a philosophy and music taste of someone like the Gryphon's designer Rasmussen.