Best of Both Worlds, Hybrid Amps .

Any particular class or type of hybrid you are considering. The one I see quite often are tubes in the preamp section of an integrated amp. But people are using class A input sections of class D output amps. There are many different ways to hybridize anp and its seems many get made
My personal evolution in this hobby culminated when I decided to use mono bloc tube amps. I don't think much of these tube pre amp SS power amps. My earnest advice is to ignore the hype and mystery of putting a tube somewhere in the circuit and you get tube sound. Save time money and disappointment and buy eith a tube amp or a good transistor amp (as Ralph calls SS.)

A Hybrid amp could also be the worst of both worlds. Are you talking about a power amp that has a tube input and solid state output?
Alan

IMHO, hybrids with tube input and SS output sections are SS amps. A good one will be an excellent SS amp. Amps with this topography have never IME sounded like tube amps, probably because they don't interact with the loudspeaker the way a tube amp does. That's just speculation, but I've heard a TON of hybrids over the years and - while several sounded quite good - not one has sounded notably tube like.

Just IME.

Marty

I had a Butler Audio TDB-5150 5-channel, 150 watts/ch., tube/MOSFET power amp that was really great. Lots of power, MOSFET "balls" mated to tube sweetness. They can be found here once in a while for good prices.

They also make a TDB-2250 2-channel, 250 watts/ch. power amp that is very nice...

www.Butleraudio.com

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