Which Quicksilver to buy

I know my Silver Monos (90wpc) had the option for cages. It's a KT88 amp, but you can run KT90s in it. The KT90s should be more neutral and have taunter bass than most KT88s which sound thicker or tubbier to me. Think of the KT90 as a "heavy duty" EL34 rather than a Kt88. To each his own.

Aaron

I had a local metal shop build cages for my Quicksilver amps (see my system page). A bit more expensive but not outrageously so. I very much doubt you'll miss anything about SS going to a KT88 based PP or Pentode amp (the silver 90's are Pentode). I've had the 90's and MiniMites as well as two prototype amps Mike Sanders built, one of which I still have and will never part with. I liked the 90's for what they did best (rock and roll and orchestral music.....layered complex music), but for most of what I prefer to listen to I prefer his PP designs. The EL34 is a more delicate sound in comparison to the KT88/90 and there you may notice a bit of low end difference, though I've not perceived it as something I'd yearn for. The V4 are supposed to be excellent amps but I have no experience to convey. Which preamp and speakers are you using and how efficient are the speaker?

Marco

We had a Krell 300i, and I don't really miss the bass slamm too much. About the only time I notice is when I am listening to live amplified heavy metal. I felt the linestage made more of a difference that the amps did with regards to bass slam. One tube linestage that I heard that had excellent slam, was the Transcendent Grounded Grid preamp.

Marco,
So are all the Quicksilver amps pentode then? The website doesn't specify.
I'm using an AR LS25 MKll preamp and Vandersteen 2C speakers recently rebuilt at Vandersteen, and the next item I'll upgrade in my system.

Thanks,
David