MacIntosh c12000 preamp - Can not tell a difference between tube and solid state sound

Tube products have soft clipping and roll the top end of the wave for that famous tube sound.enjoy the music

The yamaha pre amp and amp have the correct synergy ie gain that matches together.true you could change tube's to find your sound that's tube rolling and alot of audiophile enjoy that. It's hard to do with solid state cuz you can't just change transistors. I have the macintosh pre amp and run it in the tube mode with several amps including 2 kw. If you read the review on the Mac 12000 pre it states one of the best they tested. Because it's such low distortion it may not have the huge tube sound people are use to.the pre amp and amp need correct gain,impedance, ect for great sound. Enjoy the search.

Great answered that were looking for.where do you find your tubes?

Good to know time to start tube rolling.thx