I've always said that tubes are simply more interesting in pretty much every way, although I did buy a Pass XA-25 this year. Likely the most boring looking amp there is (especially compared to other Pass Labs meter festooned monsters) but it's the only amp that's caused me to put my beloved Dennis Had Firebottle SEP on a shelf for a well earned rest. I do fire it up from time to time (and I still have my 4 Schiit Freya GEs burning away) but the XA-25 is a simply an astonishing sounding original design that just sits there...gets hot...even its light is among the dimmest of any amp I've owned...it just sits there...
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