Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ?

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.

Mike, I see. Large scale music in a big room, that's when one might want top SS. Probably also particular speakers. I wonder how, say, JM Labs Grand Utopia, would do with both DartZeel and VAC. Or Classic Audio speakers. I envy your Ampex decks, anyway.

I always thought of a reference system as just that, a reference. In other words, something you can compare other hardware to in order to make a judgement as to whether a change makes a difference, good, bad or indifferent, to your ears.

All systems are reference.