Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR

@Sakahara

Saw you were selling your Sophia's, was kind of confused until now.

You mean this one? http://www.thoeress.com/en/f2a11-stereo-amplifier/

Very unusual design for sure, but its German, so, must be good:-)
Their speakers looks very impressive to.

Interesting how it compare sonicaly to 300B based amp.

Sakahara,
You replaced your wonderful Tron amp? what did you find better with the replacement?

So maybe sacrilege but have a push pull 300b tube amp (actually on the way its 23 watts of power). It runs four 300b's. Comes with EH 300bs. I also have a 300b set with Full Music se 300bs which are very nice tubes but only 2 of them so you can afford the luxury. So 4 of the high end 300bs is going to set me back at least $1,000, maybe even $1500. Yikes - what do I do - will play with the Eh's for a while but know I am already scheming for some Sophias or something else.....? Is there a budget tube that will give me what I need out of my new amp?

Ladavid , The svetlanas are the real deal at around $ 325 a set , these are my new reference replacing EML xls , create/synergy , EH , Black treasures and full music carbons.

one of the things I always wonder about with 300b's is how wide the gulf is between various manufacturers. Prices vary wildly - is something like a Electro Harmonix to Svetlana to new Royal Princess a $700 gap in terms of value and sound. I know only my ears can tell me the answer to that questions so a bit rhetorical.