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Solid state; when would you use tubes?

If you had an integrated Levinson, Classe, Meridian or even something good but less expensice like an Arcam, or Musical Fidelity, when would you use tubes? And how? Is it better to add a tube preamp, or better to add a tubed CD player or something?
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oneobgyn
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I agree

Having owned pretty much every high end SS amp and preamp, I am now all tubes and wouldn't have it any other way. I will never go back to SS.

ARC Ref 3 preamp is IMO the finest preamp I have ever heard.

I am one of those loonies that uses an SET mono...specifically Vladimir Lamm's ML 2.1 which at 18 wpc drive my 750 lb Wilson X-2's with ease. I can also pump up their volume to ear bleeding SPL before they clip.

The sound that these components produce is for "my" ears as good as it gets.
oneobgyn
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Jax2

If you are ever riding in the SF Bay area of Northern California, look me up and come have a listen to my SET rig. I wouldn't trade it for anything
oneobgyn
410 posts
 
"Did Howard (Boa2) come listen to your sysem?"

Howard and his wife were at my house 4 weeks ago for a listening session.
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