When were the best tube amps made?


And what were they?

1980's Audio Research need not apply. 

erik_squires

Absolutely right now. Just heard a pair of VAC Master 300 monoblocks. Holy cow. These have me thinking that AMP is the most important component of the audio chain. Including room.

In terms of engineering brilliance and sheer transparency, timbre and attack Nobu Shishido’s Wavac designs are unequalled in my mind 

The question finally goes down with today or past.

When we talk about tube amplifiers, we should  be more focused on music. When we listen the music, what is important? If we are talking about the  enjoyment of the music, and whether matter it is the original sound, then I vote for today 's amplifier. Otherwise, it is definitely belongs to the past.

Interesting topic,and I will add more. If the amplifier make the sound more beauty, and it looks like not the real one. I call the declaration of sound. Do you like or dislike? Let me be clear, there is no wrong or right. It is your choice, and I just dislike that kind of sound. Someone do, as far as I know. So it becomes the huge background when we talk the best tube amplifiers.