I’m in the same boat as @waltersalas Had nothing but a great experience purchasing and owning my LM 508. LM continuously gets much praise for it’s build quality and sound. But there can be a lemon anywhere. The 508 is a dynamics beast and is never slow or sweet. It also has a lot of bottom end grunt and grip, detailed, airy highs when called for with a very palpable mid range. I’m currently running it with 88db speakers until my new ones come in and it never struggles.
I’m a low to medium volume listener most days but when the Scotch is calling the shots, the LM has muscle to spare.
I’m also currently running an LTA MZ2 pre amp but the LM508 pre is no slouch and I could live with it happily. All this and I’m still on stock tubes in the LM.
I’ve only heard good things about the Pass amps as well.
If your current speakers don’t have a SET friendly impedance curve, I’d probably look elsewhere.
I’m a low to medium volume listener most days but when the Scotch is calling the shots, the LM has muscle to spare.
I’m also currently running an LTA MZ2 pre amp but the LM508 pre is no slouch and I could live with it happily. All this and I’m still on stock tubes in the LM.
I’ve only heard good things about the Pass amps as well.
If your current speakers don’t have a SET friendly impedance curve, I’d probably look elsewhere.