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Look if you are comparing $500 receivers then I will concede that the differences between them will be small. But i've heard enough tube amps and ss amps to hear consistant differences between the designs. To my ears SS amps control bass better than tube amps whose bass is usually rounder and...

No Paul an "OPINION" has been presented to me. A couple of tests do not make your opinions fact. I've compared solid-state and tubes in the same system at my dealers and my home and they didn't sound the same but each had their strengths. Julian Hirsch wasn't without his own critics so he wasn't...

If all amps sounded the same then I would have stayed with solid state and not bought tubes. I'm not rich and i'm not spending money just to spend it. I know there is a anti-audiophile sentiment on this board but do you really think audiophiles spend large amounts of money on electronics and...

Well I guess I wasted all that money on my 2-channel tube system when all I really needed was a Bose wave radio!:D

Flexible? Theta pre/pro's are modular and so are their Dreadnaught amps so you can set them up any way you want them. There is nothing more flexible than that. The Denon 5805 might be the king of receivers but it will go out of date while you can always have a Theta updated.

What was the process in matching the amps? I find this hard to believe since I don't think EL34 tubes and KT88's sound the same and switched between them with different types of music when I had a Cary V12 amp.

How would you EQ a cheap SS amp to sound like my Thor Audio TPA-30 tube amps? Most of these tests always want the EQ or alter in some way the expensive amp. Are you also going to say a receiver will play as loud and as cleanly without compression in demanding action sequences as a high power SS...