Wilson sophia typically found with solid state

Stringreen,

agree with you on your comment on Ayre and how it would be difficult to tell blindfolded if it is SS or tubed. Of course the quality of bass would give it away (better with the Ayre).

Several Audiogoners and myself are running Lamm ML2.1's with very nice results. My close second choice would be the VTL's 450's. I heard the Ayre MXR's with an Ayre pre-amp and I like them, but I'm prefer tubes.

Good luck you have some very nice speakers - enjoy.

Awesome Peter ......awesome. Heard those in all BAT setup.
Very good indeed.

Yes! You will not have any problems with tubes.
The largest retailer here in Canada said most of them ended up going out with solid states even though they had a beautiful set up with VTL References MONOs. They work well with both SS or Tubes.

Everything else is as important as making a Sophia purchase,placements,cabling.....and so on. I ended up going SS myself.

I used mine with BAT 75SE for a long time. excellent, excellent combo. best sound i ever had.