Tekton Double Impacts

Thanks teajay, any info would be appreciated. They sound like wonderful tubes. I believe Kenny is correct in that they are not Shuguang tubes but are Golden Dragon Retro KT 88's that are replicas of the GEC. Thanks for the info Kenny.

Ill find out soon enough as I orders a matched quad of the Golden Dragon Retro KT 88's. The bay has them at a reasonable price, which I'm a bit leery seeing as they are twice the price at another shop in the US and at another in England. Hopefully I'm getting the real deal. 

Corelli, you tease! Share your tubes with us......that sounded so wrong :)

mazikrav,

If all you have ever heard in tube land is a mushy old dynaco then you have no idea how good they can be,but I will say no more unless you ask and I will lead you to a F7 which I think would be a logical stepup in a slightly more open sound but still retaining plenty of that 3rd order sound you like and may also have a sweeter top end and slightly better control of the bass.
The 30.8 is very nice also but is big,heavy,and puts of more heat than a first watt and probably is a little overkill for you in Pwr.

The best SS that I have heard yet is my Diy Sit2 that uses a pair of Nos Sony Vfet's in a push pull topology making 40watts into 4ohms,
but these are rare amps and only a handful were built from a small collection of matched and genuine Sony transistors and they are pretty much unobtainable now.

Nelson does have a couple new amps in his FW lineup coming out probably next year and that would be the F8 and the Sit3.

Or you could really step out of the box and get yourself the all in one Lyngdorf Tdai-2170 that grannyring and others are really liking.
I personally haven't heard one but I will predict that in the next 5 to 10 yrs this kind of Class D technology will be further refined along with improvements to switch mode pwr supply's that will turn the Audio Industry upside down and probably only small percentages of Audiophiles will retain their Tubes and Class A SS gear.

I'm stocking up on tubes as I write this post because I will always have a least a couple of Tube amps for a different fun flavor forever.😃

Kenny.

Thanks, Kenny:

You're a real treasure!!!!!
I'll keep your post for reference over the next months and find a way to research all the options. No questions right now. I'm too busy listening and saving money.  But next year......

Hello Mazikrav, 
Kenny provided you with excellent recommendations given your stated listening biases.  Kenny sent me his First Watt S.I.T. 40 watt push pull amplifier and I've had the pleasure of using it the past few weeks.  It is simply a terrific effort by Nelson Pass,  pure class A design. It is one of the very best sounding solid state amplifiers I've heard  (and that is a large number believe me). Unassuming appearance but fabulous sound quality is my summary of it. 

If I were to go down the transistor amplifier pathway this First Watt would be near the top of a very short and selected list.  I believe that this particular amplifier or something quite similar to it would make you happy and utterly satisfied. I also believe that you'd love the Pass Labs XA 30.8 as Kenny mentioned above. 
Charles 

Kenny,
Agree with your comment regarding the Dyna 70 tube amplifiers,  I had one years ago. In all candor it cannot honestly be mentioned in the same breath as the higher tier well executed tube amplifiers I've owned/heard subsequently.  It is very far down in the pecking order 😊. Mushy bass it certainly had,  this amplifier is the antithesis of my Coincident Frankenstein. 
Charles