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<blockquote data-quote="TrollDragon" data-source="post: 23031373" data-attributes="member: 237111">Awesome stuff there! I&#039;m an apartment dweller so unfortunately no speakers for me, that&#039;s why I went the headphone route.&nbsp; The QSC stuff is quite impressive I was just looking at their network amps, connect speakers and put them on your network. Then it&#039;s just a matter of point and click pairing up input/output combinations etc.&nbsp; That PT100 looks like a solid little unit, I don&#039;t think they make a bad product in their BasX line.Tubes can be a seriously expensive rabbit hole if you let it. People chase <a href="https://www.ebay.ca/itm/e88cc-tube-quad-d-getter-pinched-waist-valve-s-preamp-VALVO-SQ-6922-CCA-CV2492/254823666794" target="_blank">extremely rare vintage tubes</a>, they have to sound better since they were made in the heyday of tube manufacturing, right? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite14" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; YMMV and if they have the dosh to splash out for stuff like that, then more power to them.Tube amps are more expensive to manufacture than solid state, the output transformers take up the majority of the cost. If you want the low frequencies to have authority, it takes some big iron to do that.&nbsp; But there are many inexpensive Chinese tube amps available that with a few mods and parts upgrades turn out to have a very decent sound. Research is the key and a lot depends on what speakers he is going to be using with them, best to join a Facebook tube group or forum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TrollDragon, post: 23031373, member: 237111"] Awesome stuff there! I'm an apartment dweller so unfortunately no speakers for me, that's why I went the headphone route. The QSC stuff is quite impressive I was just looking at their network amps, connect speakers and put them on your network. Then it's just a matter of point and click pairing up input/output combinations etc. That PT100 looks like a solid little unit, I don't think they make a bad product in their BasX line. Tubes can be a seriously expensive rabbit hole if you let it. People chase [URL='https://www.ebay.ca/itm/e88cc-tube-quad-d-getter-pinched-waist-valve-s-preamp-VALVO-SQ-6922-CCA-CV2492/254823666794']extremely rare vintage tubes[/URL], they have to sound better since they were made in the heyday of tube manufacturing, right? ;) YMMV and if they have the dosh to splash out for stuff like that, then more power to them. Tube amps are more expensive to manufacture than solid state, the output transformers take up the majority of the cost. If you want the low frequencies to have authority, it takes some big iron to do that. But there are many inexpensive Chinese tube amps available that with a few mods and parts upgrades turn out to have a very decent sound. Research is the key and a lot depends on what speakers he is going to be using with them, best to join a Facebook tube group or forum. [/QUOTE]

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