best monitor for tubes?

Proac 1sc's!

second the proacs. i have just bought a pair of response 2S and i cant wait to try tubes.

alan

ProAcs love tubes. No question. There is a new speaker line from Finland coming to the US soon called Penaudio -- definite tube speaker also. Also listen to Legend and Silverline. The list is much longer, but these are my picks.

My first really expensive hifi purchase, 10 years ago, was a Lectron JH-30 tube integrated amp and ProAc Response 2's. Since then I've spent 10's and 10's of thousands of dollars trying all sorts of tubes, solid state, and speaker after speaker: Meridian, Audio Physic, QUAD, Audiostatic, Red Rose, JMlab, Revel, my current Wilson's (which are for sale). The irony is that in my new apartment I will be back to where I started: JH-30 and a pair of ProAc 1SC's. They really make a great sound. For bass, add a REL Storm subwoofer.

I have enjoyed Platinum Solo's with wonderful bass extension driven by 35 tube watts per channel for near field listening. These are $700-800 used on Audiogon, very much a bargain. Rear ported so need at least 2 feet from wall behind speaker. Those who favor transistors prefer multi-hundred watts per channel to fill a larger room with this same speaker in its non-monitor "take no prisoners" Superman mode.