Tube-like: What tube amp can be the benchmark?


Tube amps. Classic (?) sound vs. the more modern (?) sound.

Tube amps. There are so many - each evincing a different kind of sound.

So. For you. Which tube amp, if we wanted to establish a benchmark, would it, should it be?

Feel free to define: The Sound. The Tube. The Amp.
finsup

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Sure. But we never make things that simple here, do we? :)

Look at all the threads looking for a best tube amp or a solid state amp sounds more like tubes. Seems to me before one can even begin to answer those kinds of questions, one needs to define the characteristics of tube sound. And by that I mean what might be the ideal "tube-like" sound?

Here, we might get into some very subjective characteristics like an amp that let's you step inside the music. But what, then, are the objective characteristics of that sound? And what amp or amps might be the reference?

Just curious...

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