Lush and Romantic Tube Amps

Cary SLI-80 Signature. It doesn’t get much more lush than that, if that’s yer thing….

As for VAC, the only one I’ve heard was the PA 100/100. It was about as far from tubey as you could get. I’ve owned many SS amps that sounded more like a tube amp than that one.

Having 40 years in Audio I speak by experience.

by far the best value as well as quality are the hand built SET 300 B amplifiers 

by Vacuum tube Engineer,designer Radu Tarta . You would have to spend 3-4x 

as much $$ money to = his build quality ,and sound ,His Great amps start around $6k  using the Excellent Lundahl transformers,and chokes ,and side panels  and top plates he has custom built to any standard ,and powder coated  with beautiful solid wood front and side panels. 

If you had a sensitive speaker like a Spatial audio , or Klipsch Lascala 1 watt would be plenty at over 104 db efficiency.

+rcprince

Ozzy--the Rennaissance amps use 300B tubes, a lot different sound than the PA10/100s..