The Sylvania 6L6 is very nice indeed.
Ralph post is a Phd,
of course SS with a tube front end SS output , liquid cooling, no emiter resistors, etc and a few other tricks can sound incredible, see Vandersteen M5, M7
of course soundstage depends on preserving those subtle time and phase related cues as well as not burying them in whatever flavor of distortion you may prefer.... lots of feedback kills image depth, easy test with an SPL meter, genius ( mindful designer ) Roger Modjeski designed RM-9 with variable feedback :-) ears are required
Ralph post is a Phd,
of course SS with a tube front end SS output , liquid cooling, no emiter resistors, etc and a few other tricks can sound incredible, see Vandersteen M5, M7
of course soundstage depends on preserving those subtle time and phase related cues as well as not burying them in whatever flavor of distortion you may prefer.... lots of feedback kills image depth, easy test with an SPL meter, genius ( mindful designer ) Roger Modjeski designed RM-9 with variable feedback :-) ears are required