Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ?

When I say reference I don’t mean Pass amps with some lower end Wilson speakers. Just because you have a good sound doesn’t mean necessarily that it is a reference sound. There are preferences and subjective elements and there is also objectivity. Who has top or near top level Boulder, Gryphon or D’Agostino amplification? That’s reference level SS amplification. And lets put them against same level Lamm VAC and CAT. Why would you go with those SSs instead of tubes, practical considerations aside ? They would never give you the midrange that those valve amplifiers would.

@inna

been there, done that.

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/ying-and-yang-lamm-ml3-and-dartzeel-458.24906/

5 years ago i bought a set of Lamm ML3 mono blocks, and a friend loaned me a set of VAC Statement 450 mono blocks to compare to my darTZeel 458 solid state mono blocks in my system. i had these three sets of top level amplifiers together in my system for 4 months.

it’s 1433 posts long talking about this compare. short answer, i preferred and kept the darTZeel solid state, and then upgraded the 458’s to the 468’s.

solid state ruled the day.

i will also add that IMHO Boulder, Gryphon, D’Agustino would not likely have made the cut. those more mainstream solid state brands are not musical enough. the darTZeel result does not necessarily extend to other expensive solid state. advertising and presence in brick and mortar showrooms should not be required from a brand. darTZeel goes it’s own way. sounds like music, not tubes and not solid state.

do i have a reference level system? fair question. my opinion is that if anyone has one, i have one. but that is for others to say.

great videos ...

Jay is generous and intelligent ...

Tube and /or S.S. is an embeddings environment contextual choices as it must be ...

The only thing i will claim : the room acoustic is way more important than the choice between tube or S.S. in all case ...

I will not comment about Jay room because i am not there ... But it is certainly not my prefered room ... His microphone are very good though ...

Thanks to him for his videos ...

The OP is arguing why "his" tube preference is not universal aka why doesn't the world have the same preferences as he does?  Answer - because we are not him.