My amp has no faults

Thank you, Ralph. I did read that paper when it was recently referred to on another thread and just read it again. I'll probably read it a couple more times yet. Seems like it could be a game changer. Possibly in a mix. I like the bottom end to cut like a knife.

Bottom end cutting like a knife? Check OTLs then if you are looking to go tubes. Though the damping factor of the amp will affect how tight the bass is to some degree (this will differ according to the drivers employed for the low-end, another reason to think in terms of specific speaker-amp pairing). I have both amps that overdamped and underdamped the bass on my speakers. With some Atma-Sphere amps, the damping factor can be fairly low, so underdamping is potential risk.

Even though tubes may have the most amplification faults, those faults are an easy trade off for the characteristics I value in entertainment playback as opposed to the desired clinical playback the switching amplifiers provide in my studio.

The reason tubes are still around half a century after they were supposed to be obsolete is that people like them. They like them because it is easier to get a tube amplifier to obey human hearing rules than it is with transistors. Its that simple.

So I would not describe tubes as having 'amplification faults'. If anything they have less. We use them in our studio too :)

"They like them because it is easier to get a tube amplifier to obey human hearing rules than it is with transistors. "

They also look way cool!

["So I would not describe tubes as having 'amplification faults'. If anything they have less. We use them in our studio too :)"]

Neither would I, but many "may" view them as having faults such as tube degradation, heat, and cost.

Aside from the physical and financial reasons for not using tube amplifiers in our studio the combination of the nCores and the little Avalon Mixing Monitors simply fits our needs.