Tekton Double Impacts

Oh, I’m totally on-board with that opinion Vitop. There currently isn’t a tube in my system. The Odyssey Candela Pre I’m getting only has two tubes. Klaus SWEARS I’ll love it and if I don’t, he’ll take it back. The Kismet power amp I’m getting from Klaus isn’t tube. Fully SS. This is exactly why I would seek your and Nick’s opinion on it. You both are open minded, but SS leaning. Exactly as I am. But more experienced in the hobby. But I’m still going to decide what it is I like as the final answer. It’s what we do in this hobby. Right?
And my set-up will have a HT pass-through. I use my system as much or more for HT than I do for Music. Hopefully that will work correctly or I’m in trouble with the boss.

And cool to hear you’re also a car guy. That is my expensive hobby. I have a mustang running 8.6 at 160 in the 1/4. The black hole in the garage into which I pour money. I could have built a stand-alone 100 seat home theater for what I’ve spent on that car since I purchased it in 2001.

Perhaps I went off on a tangent... 

@bullitt5094  It's great that you have the opportunity allowing for @evolvist and @vitop to audition your new equipment and provide feedback, etc.

In this case, I think it's easy for Klaus to 'swear' : )  Since it isn't close to being a fair 'fight' with your Denon pre. 

Looking forward to hearing about how it all works out within your system!

@bullitt5094  Are you therefore, watching movies outdoors in your Mustang....?    : )

@Brotw - No we didn't use a tube pre, because I wanted to compare pure apples to oranges with SS versus tube. 

Nonetheless, I think the Blackhawk would supply plenty of power for your room size. We barely even touched the full power of what the Blackhawk can do. The 20w Blackhawk (I'm told) might just hit up into the 100-150wpc of a SS amp in a high efficiency speaker. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept, but that's what I heard, as well: ear bleeding levels in a pretty large room. 

Or call Raven up and inquire. 

Otherwise, what David said, yes. 

@Bullitt and @Vitop - The tube amps like the Blackhawk and ZOTL40 are self biasing, so there's no need to fiddle with that. Moreover, the tubes are said to at least give 50,000 hours, yet assuredly more, perhaps into the 100,000 range. That's 2,083 days, or 6 years if you played them straight through, at 50,000 hours. 

But let's say that you only use them 2 hours a day: that's well over 20 years. 

Do you want to live forever or something? :-)