Who makes the highest quality tube amps?


One scale of 1-10, 10 being best designed and constructed technically, personal sound preferences aside, who are the 8s, 9s, and 10s?

VAC, ARC, Atmasphere would seem like likely candidates I can think of. Are they ?

Where does Decware rank? Rogue? How about others?

SOme technical facts to help support any claims is appreciated please.

Durability and reliability matters to me here as much as anything. I would want my tube gear to continue to work as reliably as designed years down the road as well as up front.

THanks.

Thanks.
mapman

Showing 1 response by bdp24

Since no one else has, I'll nominate any amp designed and hand-made by Roger Modjeski at Music Reference. Not that his RM-9, RM-10, RM-200, and his new low-power single-ended and OTL amps are THE best (IS there such a thing?), but they are well designed and built, last a long time with no cases of bursting into flames as some even much more highly priced tube amps have, and sound great. Ask anyone who has one!