Faust 168,
I agree with your other responses, I think this is not valid but I'm not certain. I'd like to find out from an expert just to be certain.
On the one hand, I combined a tube VTL pre-amp with a ss Aragon amp for years and it sounded very good. I know it's very important to make sure the input impedance of the ss amp needs to be at least 10 times the output impedance of the tube pre-amp for a good match. But I've never heard of these combos causing harm to the ss amp.
On the other hand, some capacitors in my ss Aragon amp's power supply leaked after a few years and I had to replace it. However, I attributed this to the amp being 15 yrs old and not to using a tube pre-amp. I think I'm correct but am not certain.
Better safe than sorry,
Tim
I agree with your other responses, I think this is not valid but I'm not certain. I'd like to find out from an expert just to be certain.
On the one hand, I combined a tube VTL pre-amp with a ss Aragon amp for years and it sounded very good. I know it's very important to make sure the input impedance of the ss amp needs to be at least 10 times the output impedance of the tube pre-amp for a good match. But I've never heard of these combos causing harm to the ss amp.
On the other hand, some capacitors in my ss Aragon amp's power supply leaked after a few years and I had to replace it. However, I attributed this to the amp being 15 yrs old and not to using a tube pre-amp. I think I'm correct but am not certain.
Better safe than sorry,
Tim