Calling all SET fans

Shu, I heard the Glow audio Single Ended Pentode design amp at a show a couple years back and thought the sound to be one of the best of show. Very nice product that will not break the bank!! I think think it was running with Audio Note speakers of some sort, or something similar, but not sure.

Some of the Decware amps have also caught my eye for just a bit more.

I think the speakers to be used and kinds of music to be played and how loud more than ever are perhaps the biggest considerations in determining what simple topology tube amp to choose. You can spend as much as one chooses on either amp or speakers depending. The work involved to deliver music realistically never changes, but there are many ways to skin that cat.

Schubert if you are going to listen to some Omega Speakers, try to make sure that they are using the RS5 driver. Compared to the older hemp, it's much warmer, has lower bass and just sounds better. The difference is not small.

Schubert,
Why not listen to DeVore 0/96 or 0/93? Maybe Rethm? Coincident Triumpth? Each several times, perhaps six or seven times your budget, but hey, maybe "you can s-t-r-e-t-c-h a bit". Rob

If building around a particular SET amp, its only gonna pay to hear speakers with the chosen amp more so than ever. What speakers sound like with other amps will not mean much.

Schu already has the Triangle Titus speakers to try with his current EE amp and then maybe with teh new SET that I think have a chance to work well. I would wait to hear that first before making any other moves regarding speakers.

As usual the genius of the one and only Mapman strikes again .
I'm listening right now to my Triangle Titus 202's, the cheapest speaker (600$) ever to be a Stereophile Class B , with my 8 watt EE Minimax integrated . They are fast as lighting and coherent as hell with a cap crossover at 6 K.
VERY realistic tone and staging , one of those hard to shut off jobs . At a rated 90db eff I never thought to use then with the little Minimax with Hitachi 6BM8's , but the presentation is flawless !

Smokes everything else I have on hand in my small condo,
Meadowlark Kestrel 2 and Eagle
Silverline Prelude
Totem Model 1 Sigs
Gallo CL-3
Rega R1

Wire is Morrow MA-5 and SP-4 biwire .
I have less than a grand into the speakers and amp and about $500 in wire .Wish I knew this 20 years ago, but I was too busy listening to music ,