Make sure to take a look/listen at the Quicksilver V4's. I have owned the DNA-1 Deluxe, DNA-2 Deluxe, auditioned the Rogue M120's and the Rogue Zeus. The Quicksilver V4's are built like tanks, and you get a LOT for the money, as Mike Sanders at Quicksilver doesn't drop loads of cash on advertising and raise his retail price accordingly. You can opt to use just about any tube, KT-88, KT-90, EL 34, 6550, etc. Mike told me with the KT-90 compliment it would be about 170-180 watts per channel. The Quicksilver's in comparison to the M 120's were a bit more open and clean. The bass was about the same, just seemed to be better soundstaging with the V4's and more of a "tube" presence in the midrange. The Rogues seemed a bit more "solid state". I can also put it this way... if you have a scale of say 1 to 10 in tube sound... 1 being the most "syrup classic tube sound" (some may say the Cary camp) or 10 being the most "solid state like sound for tubes" being Audio Research, BAT, etc... I would place the Quicksilvers at about a 5... perhaps a bit on the warm side. I would place the Rogues about a 6 almost in the middle but perhaps a touch on the solid state sounding side. However! I did hear the M 120's with 6550's in it, which I have always felt were a bit dark, perhaps they would have sounded better with KT-88's. Good luck.
