solid state vs tubes

Unsound the zeros have a 60 day trial period so you can try them on your own system with no risk.

"i will repeat, i am not looking for tube-like per se, but rather to be unable to detect the difference between a ss and tube amp, driving a pair of planar speakers."

I don't think anybody can tell what you will or will not be able to detect. Only you know what you hear and like.

All I can add and then I'll check out is that good sound is good sound, regardless of the technology used to achieve it. And only you know what good sound means to you. So don't be hung up on it must sound like this technology or that. Just do your homework, try some good SS amps and hear for yourself. If you really want to ditch the tube amps bad enough, I am certain you will. Otherwise just live with the tubes for better and for worse.

MrT, I have one word for you...Spectron! Or even better for your planars two words...mono Spectrons!

Spectron or better mono's?

I finally heard these (mono's with all options) in another members system paired up with Analysis Audio Amphitryon panels who has been raving about his sound for a while now in other threads so I was very anxious to hear, well I did and I did not think much of the set-up, I actuatly felt sorry for the guy. Now before the bullets start flying it could have been something else within the chain but it was very disappointing and I couldn't find anything to comment positive on. A good friend went over to this members place at another time because he really wanted to hear these Greek speakers as they have been raved about and having a conversations afterwards also had nothing positive to say except he felt it could not be due to the speakers themselves but someting else farther up the chain.

How do you tell someone who is so convinced their system is all that when by far it isn't?