SET the best?

There are so few threads focused on SET amps....Is it too much to ask that the AGD and GAN and Class D discussions be moved to their own thread or one of many already in existence?

@david_ten There are also a good number of SET threads. The comments are relevant due directly to the question asked in the OP. It appears that if the answer were 'yes' at one time that SETs are rapidly being eclipsed, even by class D amps let alone other tube topologies.

@alexberger

AGD are not digital amps as well as the other 90% class D amps. They are analog with the small exception of Technics, Lyndgdorf and maybe a few others

@alexberger 

There is a big difference between an ASIC, and a FET. You should know this being you design ASIC's. You should also know most class D amps are not digital so what's your point of all your mis-information??

well I have not heave your amp, nor any other Class D. 

Only several PP amps. 

EL34, KT88,Kt120, all were excellent in dynamics and musicality.

But have you read anything suxch as **wow this xyz PP amp is magical..**Maybe Jadis' new KT170 has some magic,, but that tube along with the KT150, to me looks just like a  bigger KT88 style tube..and so??? More power? More  bass/highs..?? OK, Big deal.

But how often have we read, **WOW sets are magical, pure lineraity..*

My tech who built his UX250 amp, had 1 cap not soldered, well solder broke off after so many years,,, we reapired it,, brought it  back,, NOW I was hearing SET magic for the 1st time. Once you heard SET sound,, there is no possible way the  audiophile will turn his back ona  SET. Maybe as a 2nd system, which I am sure many of us here have bother PP and SETs.

But once struck with SET magic,  one could never forget the magic (in certain recordings/music styles). 

SRTs the best??

Lets  rephrase.

Which amp design offers the magic  **something SET -like**?

EL34 SET's yes, But not a  El34PP. 

Hi @ron1264 ,

I'm not an expertise in Class D amplifiers.

But all of them digital and PWM are very different from SET.

For example, most of SET fans use high sensitive speakers like: horns or full range drivers. And they like these speakers not just because they don't need huge power amplifier - but because dynamics, texture, transparency advantage over mainstream low sensitive speakers.

I can't imagine any benefits from class D for high sensitivity speaker. 

About analogue chips for audio. Any small production parts "for audio" will cost crazy expensive. Look, for example , at prices for AN Kaisei electrolytic capacitors precising vs regular electrolytic capacitors.