You've tried other amps and ended with Pass, please discuss

I don't have a lengthy data set of amps to reflect on but when I replaced my Cary CAD 120-S MKII with a Pass XA30.8 I was in sonic heaven.  The XA30.8 drove my Spendor D7 speakers so much better with a deeper and more precise bass, larger depth and width of soundstage, and more detail and imaging...all without giving up the essence of the "tube sound" that I have come to enjoy over the years.  The amp was the only change I made to my system and I have kept my VAC Ren MKV preamp in place along with my Herron VTPH-2A phono stage - both of which provide tube warmth and air.  

I truly feel like I am getting the best of tubes and SS into the primarily jazz music I enjoy.  The XA30.8 Class A power is fluid in its presentation and seems to make the rest of my gear sound better by digging deeper.

three_easy_payments
I truly feel like I am getting the best of tubes and SS into the primarily jazz music I enjoy. The XA30.8 Class A power is fluid in its presentation and seems to make the rest of my gear sound better by digging deeper.

Lovely little class-A amp, they say God himself couldn’t have design a better Mosfet based power amp, then they also say "Nelson Pass is the god of audio",(nick named papa).
And your Herron VTPH-2A is apparently to die for for vinyl, so two of my customers say.

Cheers George

@three_easy_payments,
What speakers are you using?
Bob

I just recently purchased a pass labs int-60 I love it works great everything but be warned they do not work well with ohm Walsh 2 speakers They just draw too much power and my amp blew a fuse if you have a pass lab that's over a hundred Watts then go ahead by all means but the int-60 will not work with a speaker that's hard to drive trust me

Wow! What a thread! And I thought it was cables that got most of the people all riled up!
Is not variety the spice of life? How about we argue about whether blondes make better wives than a brunette, or how come I have owned six Mustangs but won't buy a Camaro? The simple fact of all of this bickering, sniping etc. is no one likes everything, and it is no ones concern whether they like what you have as long as you are happy with what you have! Have we not reached an age where it is up to us whether we like what we have and if we are buying things audio just for the praise that we expect to get from others, or acceptance like we sought in middle school and that is why we all had to have certain brand shoes, shirts, pants etc. then perhaps it is time to do some self-examination. And perhaps I misundertood the context of the first half-dozen to dozen postings and if I have then I apologize. For me, I like to see what people own for the sheer pleasure of educating myself. I have heard $100K systems that sounded just awful and systems that were a helluva lot less that sang like a heavenly choir. So, in the immortal words of that person who once lived in L.A, "Can't we all just get along"?