Low level res more inherent in tubes?

Hello:
The Pass Labs Aleph amps, especially the monos, have excellent low-level resolution. In fact, so do the X-series amps. But you won't get "tube magic"--see my post below.
JeffreyTube

Twl,

I'd love to hear a bit more on this.

I am under the impression the Dynaudio I am using tends to be 'power hungry'. This I used to agree with because I would have to crank the sunsaguns up to get decent sound. 'High current' everybody says-'that's what you need'. So I grab an amp that doubles down with high power and 120 amps peak. This amp has great control, Looking beyond that tho, this amp just had to be played loud. Low volume rather stunk, and I would guess it not to matter which speaker it was hooked up to.

Installing this wimpy tube thing showed the speakers could indeed sing with low wattage. High current? really doubtful, I bet the amp struggles to pump 35 watts into a 4 ohm load.

Sorry guys, I guess I am just struggling to understand what all of you seem to already know- system and room synergy along with your own musical taste play a huge role in preference. The thing that confuses the hell out of me is how to combine certain attributes without giving up others desired within the system.

RW,

If I recall correctly, your integrated amp. does not have a tubed pre-amp section, it is a passive pre-amp containing only the volume control and input switching. All of the tubes are in the amplifier section to the best of my knowledge.

Check with Paul for details, but I'm fairly certain about this. Matter-o-fact, I think Paul told me to turn the volume up to 100% if I have a pre-amp or other means of volume control. The 100% volume level would basically take the volume control out the circuit.

Anyway, nothing at all to do with the main point of your post, but you mentioned tubed pre-amp and I thought I would chime in......

Enjoy,

TIC

All,

Could someone chime in with a few definitions/examples/differences between these:

Low-Level definition
Inner detail
macro dynamics
micro dynamics

Just curious as I want to write a review of my new Channel Islands VMB-1 amps and I want to know how to articulate what I am hearing. These amps have an incredible ability to let me follow bass lines that were smeared via other amps and I can easily follow some background vocals and conversations in some recordings where I was previously unable to do so.

Thanks and Enjoy,

TIC

Rwbadley, FWIW my experience with Dynaudio's is that typical of a lot of dynamic speakers they really don't open up at low volume settings with any amps - including high power tube amps. At medium to high volume they are excellent to supurb depending on the model. This has been brought home to me recently by the acquisition of some new speakers usings Seas drivers - they open up much more at low volumes, that is I have full soundstage imaging and bass at much lower levels of volume. Quads do the same thing at low levels, as do other some speakers. TWL is correct in pointing at the speakers but I'm not sure how much the amp makes a difference unless it is a tonal one, i.e. more bass output at low levels will make for a much more natural sounding tone (but will become opressive at higher volumes).