Quote Originally Posted by RGA View Post
My point doesn't take budget into account. Cheap amps have compromises regardless of the technology/topology.

Unlike some i am not a bang the Tube drum. Plenty of SS I prefer to plenty of tubes at the budget end.

My speakers are easily driven by 3-5 watts in a small room. I purchased a tube amp but not a SET - I like SET better but not at the budget end of the spectrum.

Magnepan has never sounded better to me than with the Soro. But it's $5k.
I've heard only a couple of tube amps and those weren't in my system; also, they were relatively cheap amps. The combination of those amps with the systems they were in, was quite unimpressive.

My current amp is very good, and amazingly so for the money. I would be willing to try a half-decent tube amp, however I'm skeptical that I'd prefer it and I'm definitely not going in to hock on the mere chance that I might.