Tubed amps for WP7s

I have a wp7 and also own the hybrid ss/tube lamm 2.2 mono amplifiers.

I previously ran the wp7 with rowland 302 solid state stereo amplifier.

The Lamm's easily best the rowland when it comes to capturing the emotion and feeling of music. The lamm can also have as much bass slam as the rowland if you get cables that match amp/speaker combination well. I had my lamms with nordost valhalla and then switched to purist dominus interconnect between amp and speaker. The nordost did not provide enough down low bass with the lamm. The purist definitely does.

I have not tried the 1.2 lamm mono amps but have generally heard great things. My undestanding that you get a little more presence in vocals than on the 2.2. However, I have also heard that if you truly want to rock out to modern music that some have found it lacks all the punch you might want. The 1.2 and 2.2 are probably 2/3 the same amplifier. The 2.2 is 220 watts but 41 watts in class A. While the 1.2 is 110 watts but all class A.

So I would say try to listen to both but if you listen to a lot of rock than probably the 2.2. It never hurts to have extra power and the 2.2 is so damn good with vocals already.

"The 750s aren't the last word in detail but they are the last word in musicality at loud volumes."

It all depends on what your goals are. Do you want to listen at loud volumes or do you want detail? Personally I like the latter and for detail the ML 2.1 IMO is the last word. I must say as well that they can drive my X-2's to ear bleeding SPL at 18wpc

Thanks for your responses. I had the Rowland 302s driving Eidolon Diamonds and thought they were a very synnergistic match -- in fact somewhat tubey. Unfortunately, I sold the Rowland with intentions of going SET. Prior to my Rowland/Eidolon ownership, I had a pair of WP6s driven by Art Audio Jotas and were just wonderful. The Jotas (with VV32 tubes) produced about 22WPC which certainly didn't have the last word in slam but produced such beautiful mids and decent lows and highs.

I actually now have the Air Tight ATM211 which produce 22WPC. I've had them for a week and initially thought that they were grossly underpowered but are now starting to grow on me. They're wonderful amps but perhaps not the best match for the WP7s.

Are those the Air Tights with the EL 34's? If so, I've always wondered what they'd be like with WP's...

No, these have the huge 211 output tubes, and are SET monoblocks. The ones with EL34s I believe are the ATM2s which have push-pull topology.