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Is there a Solid State amp that can satisfy a SET guy?

Have been a SET guy for so long I have forgotten what a good SS amp even sounds like.
Just bought a pair of $33k speakers that will replace my current $16k speakers. Both are from the same designer and both are 92db and a flat 8 ohms. The new ones arrive in 4 days!
My 300B based amps well drive my current speakers even though I do use the system nightly as a 2 channel home theater. Especially considering the HT usage, I think I may enjoy a SS amp with many times the horsepower. The speaker designer suggests using a Leema Hydra II. I have written to Leema telling them of my 300B preference and they assure me that their amp does not have the destructive harmonics that make a SS amp bright. There must be other SS amps that can satisfy?
mglik
mglik OP
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I got my Bakoon HPA-01 the other day. I am super happy with my Atmas but, man, the Bakoon thing is for real! It has musicality and incredible transparency, it has most of the great qualities of SS-detail, bass, dynamics with no harshness or glare. The sound is addictive!
It is my new headphone amp with my $30K CD setup. Bakoon uses a current drive Satri circuit,
They say, and I agree, it is like looking through a clear window. Indeed, a new take on SS. And it is an integrated. If anyone asked me what amp to buy, I would say-Bakoon!
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atmasphere
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Headphones bring an addition bit of clarity that's hard to get with loudspeakers. Current drive is advantageous for headphones, but impractical for loudspeakers.
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jtgofish
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Yes the Bakoons are wonderful.Some audiophiles might not get them  because they are not adding anything but if you really love music you will.They have immaculate timing so everything just gels together musically and sounds right and that is combined with very high resolution of all kinds of subtle little details that lesser amplifiers smear together.These traits are especially obvious with well recorded piano .
mglik OP
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Some more thoughts on Bakoon:
I clearly understand that a headphone system is quite different from speakers.
At least with headphones, the Bakoon HPA-01 headphone amp has amazing qualities well beyond my Berning MICROzotl. However, when it comes to realistically reproducing the sound of an acoustic instrument or voice, the Berning wins. There are key superiorities to tubes and OTLs (Berning’s OTLish). But the truth of the Bakoon is spectacular on most passages. Now listening to Sgt. Pepper’s as if for the first time! After going through this thread for months, there were several posts pointing toward Bakoon.
I am happy that I took that advise.
gmercer
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FM Acoustics are silky smooth. I was a SET guy for a time and at that time, they satisfied me, and essentially converted me.
If your speakers are a flat 8 like you say then you could get the 108’s no problem (or 111) and I think they’d blow your socks off.

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