the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ?

The speaker you have will dictate what is suitable for you in terms of an amplifier. Is your speaker tube friendly? What is the impedance curve like for your speakers? Are they sensitive enough to be driven by tube amps?

Synergy of the system is very important. Not knowing the details of your system it is very difficult to give sane advise.

If I was in the market to buy a tube amp, with no nonsense engineering, sensible pricing and superb sound I would have Cayin at the top of my list. They make a variety of amps to suit every budget and power needs.

Hope this helps

If you want the system to work well with tubes, the first thing is to sort out if the speaker is OK with that. Take a look at
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If your speaker is designed to work with amps that are voltage sources (Voltage Paradigm) you will do a lot of struggling to find a tube amp that will work with it.

Good Luck!

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*actually i have a difficulty to match speaker systems with*

Well, what ARE your speakers? That'd help a great deal to make a recommendation. But in general, for "lush" sounding tube amps, I'd say start with Cary, &/or VTL....."vintage" means something too, sometimes older tube gear sounds more "tubey"......

thanks for many tips and knowings, everybody.

my speaker system is 'dali hellicon 800' - 4ohm needed 400watt amp power.
power amp is 'mcintosh 275'
preamp is 'jeff rowland synergy'
source is 'dynaco pro'

some said 300b amp will be the best for 'warmth'
but i'm afraid that it won't be enough to drive power hungry speakers like dali800 or b$w 802.

anybody objection to use chinese shuguang kt88 tubes for better warm sound?

thanks again