Any experience with Siltech

[Mr Peabody]

You are using tube amplification and have a nice turntable rig so you and I very well have the same idea of which realm of "real" is preferred. I dont' want to generalize all solid state and tube gear but at least in comparing Krell with Conrad-Johnson the Krell made most everything sound like it was amplified where the CJ makes the sound more organic.

I too am a firm believer in synergy. Synergy is what started me off. My CD player went out and I bought an Arcam Alpha 9 some years back. I should have left it at that but then I picked up my first Krell, a 300i integrated at a good price, and the Arcam and Krell was good but you could tell the synergy wasn't there. I auditioned a Krell 250cd and used the balanced connections and there it was. I still think the Alpha 9 may have had an edge on detail but the synergy was there with the 2 Krell pieces and the presentation had more weight, you could just tell it was more correct.

[musicoverall]

You are using tube amplification and have a nice turntable rig so you and I very well have the same idea of which realm of "real" is preferred.

Indeed. As for LP's, I've lost count of the number of times visitors listening to my system have commented that they just heard the "best sounding CD" they've ever heard, only to discover it was an LP! I have to concur, although either CD's are getting better or I'm just getting more used to their particular distortions because I certainly complain much less about them.

Tubes vs SS is different. I just don't care for the sound of SS. I guess that makes me a lover of the "sound of distortion" as some objectivists claim. I counter that if measured distortion makes the sound more realistic, then isn't the lack of distortion actually distorting the sound? Tubes just sound more like what I hear live. I prefer live, therefore I prefer tubes. I guess more 2nd order distortion works on my ears better than lesser amounts of higher order distortion.

Have a great New Year!