6 months ago that would be a hard question, now it’s easy. I have had lots of tube amps, and a few SS amps. A few months ago I found my forever preamp and amp. The Pass Labs Preamp. and the amp is the First Watt SIT-4…this amp does everything beautifully….at 10 watts of Class A it makes my Klipsch Forte IVs and the Volti speakers come alive like never before.
I went down the tube rabbit hole hard, like I was a drunk, buying this tube that tube, nothing made my music sing, to my ears. One day I turned on my tube amp and another tube burned out so that was the last straw, I buried the tube in the back yard to remind me tubes really suck. I bought new tubes and luckily a local guy bought all my tubes and amps…never again…
So if Scotty beamed me to a deserted island I would take my Pass Labs XP-12 preamp, the First Watt Sit-4 and the Pass Labs XA-25 as a spare amp.
After a few months in the past I would get tired of the sound with my gear, not with the First Watt Sit-4, it makes my horn speakers just sound so amazing…my mind goes blank and makes me engage with the music…the day floats by….best amp of my 71 years…