peachtree gan 400 is very good

your right on about gan amps - especially this one - closing some gaps I think its also a given - and also you need a decent preamp to get the performance i am talking about,

you cant use a preamp - that costs $200 tube or solid state and expect the amp to sound good - you cant - you got to have a preamp that allows the amp to sound good - so many preamps put the cabash on an amp - and that person then thinks the amp is no good - when it could be the preamp not lending itself 

"So you’ve heard a lot or all tube amps at this price in your system...?"

Well not all - but cayin, primaluna, cary, audio research, and conrad johnson and jolida so not real high end - but high end for their stuff

so true - although i am ever so guilty of the amp that impresses right away over the years and not really head over heels with it a month later - this seems like the reverse of that

that is what i hear about peachtree amps - every amp they come out with is better than previous amps.

the gan 400 is a bit of a sleeper - you would never in a million years think when you got it - that it was any good or just run of the mill at best. You really have to have a little trust that it is going to evolve into something worthy of having it in your system.

like i said previously - its far from razzle dazzle - and you need a pretty good preamp - but you do get rewarded, with subtlety and charmingness and listenability

 the forgetting about how the system sounds and immersing myself in the music is very confronting to me. im so use to tinkering for the last 28 years - listening to music just for the music and not worrying about the system and the cables and the dacs and the speakers and the power conditioners and the power cables and the interconnects and isolation platforms and the racks and the stands and the flooring and the room treatments - etc . When i have a solid state system - i want tubes - when i have tubes - i want solid state

its a nice break - lets see how long it lasts