Tekton Double Impacts

Thanks Kenny. What I have on order already is a tube pre-amp and what I believe is an exceptional SS amp from Odyssey. Terry gives me the impression he believes anyone who listens to an SET amp will never consider a SS again. And I am willing to test that theory if I can find something I can afford that will actually fill my personal requirements of system dynamics. I don't think a 10 watt SET will get there. And when you start looking at any high quality tube design up in the 50 watt range, it gets stupidly expensive very quickly. But, I bought Tekton not expecting them to replace my B&Ws and they did. Nobody can accuse me of not being open minded.
But I've pulled enough away from the main point of this thread. I'll wait for the Odyssey to arrive. If I love it, end of story. And I'm relatively sure I will.

bullitt,
Klaus probably already mentioned it to you but be prepared for a rollercoaster ride for a couple weeks with the Odyssey amp. They have a notoriously long break in time which I can attest to. Should sound pretty good after that and will continue to improve for months.  

Hi bullitt5094,

This is my final attempt to try to explain to you why you owe to your self to at least hear a SET amp on the DI's.

Klaus' amps are quite good, and great bargains for the money, however they do not compete sonicly, in my opinion, with the latest generation Pass Labs XA.8 series, Perla Audio, and even with many of the First Watt amplifiers.  I have owned all of these great amps, yet they still can't do certain things like a SET amplifier.

No SS amplifier presents the music like a SET amplifier.  I could get into the liquidity, color ,tonality, flow of the music that is quite magical with these simple circuit designs, but you really have to hear it for yourself, no words can replace actual experience.  Your DI's give you the opportunity to try one out, if its not your cup of sonic tea, so be it.  Historically, I loved the sound of SET's, but hated almost all the speakers that you had to use with them ( Horns and single driver designs) that had flaws and shortcomings for my taste.  

Now, with the DI's which are reference level transducers with virtually no flaws you can use SET amplifiers with a full range highly dynamic box enclosure speaker which did not exist at this level in the past.  I'm sure there is a way, hell you can borrow my Cyber-30, so at least you would really know how different the experience is between SS amps and SET amps.       

 

Yes he did mofojo but thanks for confirming your experience. I believe the term he used was "adventure". I asked if I should just do some continuous music to get some hours on it and said "No! You will want to hear every hour of the process." The man is into his craft. That's for sure. 

A couple of questions I'll throw out there to no one in particular:

Anyone have experience with Linear Tube Audio AND Melody preamps?

There have been mention of 2A3 and 300B SET amps.
What about the 845's?