Can you share your older Pass Labs experiences?

I have owned Pass amps for 40 years and very highly recommend them. I only recently moved to a tube amp. They are built like tanks, have high current designs, with excellent neutral / natural  sound.

I’ve had several of their amps in my system over the years, built wonderful but not musical to my ears, I tired of them quickly YMMV.

I think, as always, if you are buying new you should listen to 3 brands:

Pass
Ayre
Luxman

Very different sounds to my ears, and among those you should pick whichever suits you best.

I'm using a 250.8 and an XP 10 to power my Maggie 3.7i the sound is amazing, you're never going to run out of power.
I'm sure you could get by with one of their less powerful amplifiers or integrated if you want. I made my purchase when I read the Maggie, Pass combo won the best at show a few years ago. This sounds like a forever system.

to @erik_squires short list i would add hegel... sound quality is at the same level to the others mentioned

my first experience with pass was an aleph 3 back in 1997... honey of an amp, great tone, but not alot of power so at that time did not drive my proac floorstanders with double woofers too well

but at lower volumes it had such a sweet sound, almost tube like in tactility and nuance (but of course without the ’bloom’)