So where should the tubes be?

Tubes should be where you amplify an analogue signal. 

" but extend it into amps with speakers that mate."

Say what?

@has2be 

I was just busting your balls as the term “mate” is often used to describe the activity that results in producing offspring. Matching is a more political correct term. 

I have  2wpc SEP and  3.5wpc SET amplifiers so speaker matching is something I am very familiar with. Many people don’t have appropriate speakers for their tube amps and then conclude tube amplifiers to be inferior.

Regards


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… and in 2021, tubes are still the best we can do. 

No one is intending any oneupmanship. We are past all that.

You are being sarcastic right? No way in hades are all of us past oneupmanship. We have egos and exaggerated self worths on this forum that can be seen from space … and space like the space around Pluto.