Who makes the highest quality tube amps?


One scale of 1-10, 10 being best designed and constructed technically, personal sound preferences aside, who are the 8s, 9s, and 10s?

VAC, ARC, Atmasphere would seem like likely candidates I can think of. Are they ?

Where does Decware rank? Rogue? How about others?

SOme technical facts to help support any claims is appreciated please.

Durability and reliability matters to me here as much as anything. I would want my tube gear to continue to work as reliably as designed years down the road as well as up front.

THanks.

Thanks.
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Showing 2 responses by ozzy

I currently own the Bob Carver Raven 350 amps. They replaced a Atma-Sphere M-60 Mk3.3 and before that Pass Labs X350 amps.

The newest Carver amps are really quite special. They are all made by hand, hard wired and made one at a time per order.

ozzy