Yaqin tube amps: any further thoughts?

[Feanor]

Why not ask the dealer to lend you two of them to try out first. Tube amps are not automatically better than SS or digital by the mere fact that they are tube amps. The Roksan Kandy Integrated, Sugden A21a, even the Trends Claas T amps I have here beat a lot of SS amps - but they beat a lot of tube amps as well.

And you seem to only concern yourself with measured response so why even bother - Tubes have higher THD and worse frequency response and not all of them are zero feedback. And going as cheap as possible gets you cheap sound - no matter what the design - instead of buying and trying 12 cheap amplifiers - why not get ONE great one and be done with it?

Thanks, RGA. What you say does make sense; you've talked me out of the project because a cheap amp is all I could afford.

I take you meaning that low-cost tube amps are an "iffy" proposition at best.