Quote Originally Posted by Feanor View Post
SET/OTL is true religion. And Mark, as you know, there's no arguing with true religion.
No it's not a religion - it is objectively superior sound. Objectively superior is run a blind audition and listen and most of the time - every time I am aware of - the SET is chosen as the best sound - even by top SS manufacturers selling expensive solid state amplifiers. See that is OBJECTIVE. What is not objective is seeing a graph or a THD spec and making an assumption that it is better without any first hand experience. That's a religion - the religion of the spec sheet.

There is also correlational evidence - see that most speaker makers bring tubes and SET amps to an expensive audio show where they want to put their speaker's best attributes forward. Most bring some sort of tube. Hmm. Reviewers - look at the total number of amplifier sales and reviews and see what most of them actually buy. Not all - but there is a big big correlation there.

And anytime a Magnepan owner starts throwing the religion card - look in the bloody mirror - there's a religion that borders on scientology.