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tubes and rock and roll, good fit?

Considering a move from solid state, to a tubes based set up, specificly VTL's Siegfried mono amps and 7.5 Series 11 line stage. Will I be happy with tubes or is there to much bloom for rock and roll? Only system I ever heard play real rock and roll with tubes was Lloyd Walkers and it sounded fantastic. It blew me away. Was it the tubes? Already have the tt and phono stage. Real knowledge and experiance thoughts wanted. Looking to make that FINAL move! thanks
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pryso
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Consider how many rock musicians/bands use tube amps. Any other questions?

Of course they will work but as others stated, most important is the match with your speakers. I'm not a fan of Krell, but then I only owned their amps/pre once. They offer good bass control (again depending on speaker match) but don't offer enough communication of the musical emotion for my taste. YMMV. I did own VTL 300 monos for a number of years and found them to be a great middle ground with characteristics of both tube (emotion, warmth, dimensionality) and SS (bass control, detail, clarity).
pryso
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Listen to Atmasphere's advice.

I owned a pair of his MA-1 monos for about a year (100 wpc). They were probably the most magical/musical amps I listened to with my speakers at that time - but only with selected music. Those speakers were 90 dB and their impedance curve dropped to about 3 ohms at two frequency points. So I was limited to smaller group or vocal recordings to hear them at their best. When I wanted to play rock, large group jazz, or symphonic music, they fell short.

I believe the two most important considerations in audio are the room/speaker set up and the speaker/amp interface.
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