Tekton Double Impacts

others on this lively thread are welcome to chime in.....But please don't try to convert me to tubes. I tried a modified Dyna-kit st-70 years ago and ...don't get me going. A real pain in the tochos for mushy sound. Excuse this ramble. It's late in Utah

Mazikrav,
I have a set of the Double Impacts with the capacitor, coill & binding posts upgrade in Ferrari Red BTW.
I am using a Rogue Audio St-100  , that i just got a couple of weeks ago  to drive them .
It uses four Kt-120s on the output and a pair of 12AX7s on the first stage , or input stage, and a pair of 12AU7s on the 2nd stage ,or driver stage .
 I replaced the stock 12AX7s with some NOS Telefunken ribbed plates from the 60s and WOW......It is Absolutely Glorious sounding .
I have the Bass slam , speed ,and articulation of  a solid state amp , but with the Tube magic everywhere..
If you did not know any better you would say that it is the sweetest solid state amp that you ever heard.
In fact it is the best amp that i have heard .
read the reviews
Scroll to the middle of the page on the link for the reviews

Mapman,
My purely biased answer is that Single Ended Triode tube amplification is the best sounding for any emotional meaningful reasoning in sound presentation.

Generally speaking, solid-state is a compromise IMHO, but more specifically, Push-Pull amps are a compromise regardless of whether it's tube or solid-state.  Even the best class A Solid-State doesn't compare to Single Ended Tube Amplifier sound quality-wise.  I prefer 8-10w 300b variants.

This is purely subjective of course, but I'm not alone in this camp.   

http//www.rogueaudio.com/Products_100.htm
lets try again on the link , sorry

I have been listening to the DI's that teajay reviewed and will be writing a follow up to Clement Perry's review for The Stereo Times whenever it's posted.  I have been listening to the DI's with the tube based VAC Signature 200 iQ as a stereo amp (100 watts per channel) and two of them in mono (200 watts per channel).  I have also recently been listening to the DI's with the Class A solid state Bully Sound Company m100 mono-amps.  I will have a few very interesting items to share with readers.  Should shake the tree a little but will be fun.  More to come.

Hey Charlies,

I have owned for over 30 years Nelson Pass's wonderful amplifiers ( Threshold SA-1's, Aleph 1's, XA-60.5's, XA-60.8's, SET-2) and loved them all. Each generation of his great creations got better and came closer to what tubes have to offer in a solid state design, but tubes, particularly SET designs offer aspects (spatial qualities / 3D imaging / timbres/tonality) that even his wonderful transistor amps just can't quite provide.  Therefore, the Pass Labs XA-60.8's comes in at third place behind the Triode Lab SET 2A3 and AricAudio SET KT-88 amps driving the Ulfberht's based on my personal taste.

However, I still have not heard a P/P 120 or 150 tube based amplifier that I have liked better then the XA-60.8's. The Pass Labs amplifier sounds more like a great tube ampilifier compared to the tube amps using this configuration and these tubes to my ears.

I'm still relatively shocked with what I'm hearing from Aric's SET KT-88 amplifier.  It's a great combination of most of the color and palpability of a SET 300b with the slam/speed more like a 845 SET based amplifier.  Never would I have imagined that a KT-88 could sound this way, but I never heard a SET design using this tube before.  This is a great amplifier and very reasonably priced indeed!