Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ?


I never heard of audiophiles whose reference system had transistor amplification. It is always tubes. But maybe there are exceptions.

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I have Hybrid InPol - pathos synapse pre and pathos Adrenalin monoblocks. I found my end game reference and I suppose it’s technically more SS than tube. 

Hybrid amplifier would be also fine for reference quality sound ,  at least mine  Circlelabs A200 is.

An excluding slogan as S.S. cannot be high end reference  dont reflect the necessary  designs trade off in all design cases ..

But reflect a yelling partiality as a magic simplistic  formula to be polite and i will stay polite ...

My reference system is the one I have in my listening room.  Some systems may be better some may be worse but that is my reference.

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I dunno.

My main components are pretty old, but were pretty well reviewed back in the day. How's it sound compared to today's finer SS amps/preamps? Probably holds it's own without embarrassing itself.

Works fine for me.

Now, if you compared that to a system with Dan D'Agostino amplification and a DCS source, I would expect it to get smoked, but since I don't have that....I'm cool with calling it a "reference system".

I can hear a difference when I change a source, a cable, a plug, whatever, so....good enough for me.