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In the Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power.

Post Subject: Big SETs - Just ideology?Posted by el`Ol on: 5/23/2009

I just visited the Highend in Munich and had the chance to listen to two of those monster SETs.
Cessaro showed up with monstrous 833 amps and my thought was that there is something wrong with the music.
I know it is common in this forum to describe what one hears in a more refined way, but unfortunately I can´t in this case.
The KR monsters mainly lived from the resolution of the ESLs and the stunning dynamics of the Analysis magnetostats they drove.
Tonality was different than that of the best solid state amps, but not better.
The only ones who showed that tubes are still ahead of solid state in tonality to my ears were Leben, in combination with Blumenhofer speakers.
And this was an EL34 push-pull amp!

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