Tried SHL5+ with PL Dialogue Premium HP and also with McIntosh 275(s). Awful. They sounded great with a vintage Sony TA-N77ES, but absolutely stunning with a Pass XA-30.8.
Your tube amp related Harbeth experience.
Please share your experience (good or bad), with any model Harbeth when driven with tubes. I have C'7's, and have just moved on from Class A solid state. Again, if you ended up with solid state, your experience still qualifies, as long as your journey had tube amps in the picture. I should mention that while my plan is to go integrated, I would still like to hear any experience with tube amps, even if it was a stand alone tube amp. Please let's not go in the Alan Shaw (HUG) direction here. Anyone involved likely knows the deal there. That's not for this thread. Just personal experience with a dealer, a friends system, buying used, or the like...