Tube Amp Suggestions

Dida
You talk about insults,you wrote the book on them.Read your answers you are rude and loudmouth and full of insults towards the others.Check your comments above about"who can be a man or a boy"and about "picking noses" and "wives" and so on.What's that got to do with AUDIO?

Sgunther,

So...uh...what amp did you decide on?

Yea. I agree. Lets talk audio. How you doing?

ATI,
...though I continue the search for low distortion (<0.1% THD/IMD over a respectable frequency range, somewhat greater than 20hz-20khz) tube amp with say at least 40w of power.

I would use it for the main panels of my active eq/xo 2-way open baffle system. Contiuing to use SS for the also open baffle woofers (2-12" dynamic drivers in push-pull configuration each woofer) which reqire only 50w of power themselves.

A 40w tube amp is roughly equivenent to say a 100w solid state (the min reqmt for the 2-8" mid + tweeter panels).

There are several distortion free ss amps available for as little as $200, I just believe the ATI is the better bargain.

If I had money to burn, which I would be doing, I would indugle myself in the exquisite beauty of the Jeff Rowland Design Gourp line (which actually come with an optional clear plastic to reveal the interior, which is a work of art...but $8k) though not because I expected it to perform any better than say even the $200 vintage Hafler DH-200/220.

Do you know of a tube amp that will meet the criteria (above)?

Didactically,

Can you possibly just answer HIS question? Your answer is all about you and your preferences, which don't answer the question posed by sgunther. If you can't bring yourself to recommend a tube amp, why not just search for a thread where your philosophy applies?

And if you're asking me how I am doing, just fine thank you.