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Are Pass Labs amps probably the best ever you can buy ?

I have about 15k to spend on an amp/preamp/integrated amp.

I mostly listen to smooth jazz like Dave Koz, Rippingtons, Brian Culbertson etc.... and loud.

I have yet to hear any amp that comes close to Pass Labs.

Your experiences pls ?
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tubes444
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Cakyol,

  Look NO!  @ all of these response why. Speakers love the very best Amp driven them to Nirvana.  Pass/TA Arc/etc,etc.  If your eye's on a PASS LABS own it.

Guess what!  Not the exact SOUND YOUR EARS WANTED. No problem. To cool, to warm

to hot of top end, To lose bass. What to do. Well interconnects, power cables, fuses,

all of these can be GAME changers. The Cable Co online will loan you al box full of each

to dial in your Nirvana return the rest you pay UPS both ways only.. All of these tweats
are nothing more than than ear tuners!!

Trust me my first Audio serious system back in 1969.

 Been through all of THIS is the best BS suggestors...

Tubes 444


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59vovo
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try a tpa3116, 3251, or 3255 based amp
http://www.vclassics.com/archive/tailgate.htm
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59vovo
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http://http//audiokarma.org/forums/index.php

ment this one
french_fries
735 posts
 
I heard Cary SET's at a show and the sound was anemic. Little speakers
naturally.  I heard a demo at an audio meeting of a small-scale tube amp company (SET's) on a Livingston Taylor LP. They sounded very good, maybe a tad loose in the bass. It was very nice but I still like Rowland, Levinson, etc. VTL makes great amps but they are not SET's. Some accuse them of sounding like SS! I can only vouch for Pass Aleph amps
since I have heard what they can do in person. You can hear in a few minutes the "warmth" to the presentation. It's unmistakable, but you may not personally like them, which is fine. But you can fry an egg (well almost) on the surface.
kosst_amojan
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Dowto1000,

May I introduce you to the Pass SIT by SemiSouth, a power JFET with triodic curves and massively more gain than a triode, less distortion, that can directly drive a load without a transformer. 

There certainly ways of getting the qualities of a triode out of solid state devices. It's just a question of choosing the right devices and topology. 
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