I had XP12 paired with Rogue ST100 and it was a good combo. The Rogue amp was a bottleneck but not because it’s tubes.
I run XP22 with X260.8 mono amps now and the synergy is great and I do not miss tubes.
As to the comments above claiming Pass preamps fail, I disagree. I had an Audio Research Ref 6 for over 3 weeks in my system and did plenty of A/B with the XP22 and ended up actually preferring the Pass preamp. I’m a fan of ARC and owned several of their preamps over time. But to my ears in my current system the XP22 is a better choice.
Pass Labs Preamps with tube amps?
I see plenty of search results for tube preamps with pass amps, but curious who’s experienced pass preamps (XP-10, 12, 20, 22) feeding low watt tube amps. Specifically SET amps, but any tube experiences would help.
I will be setting up two amps to swap between. a low watt SET amp and a solid state. My main amp listening being SET tube amp.