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<blockquote data-quote="squeak9798" data-source="post: 3071004" data-attributes="member: 555320">At the quality level of amplifiers you are looking at, none of them will be overrated or rate their power at more than 1% THD, which is inaudible.&nbsp; None of them are horrendously underrated either.....if you were looking at something like the RF Power or 25-Life series this would be a different story as they output well over rated power (not that underrating is &quot;superior&quot;, just a factor that needs considered).Which is precisely why I mentioned &quot;features&quot; in my post.....the crossover is a &quot;feature&quot;.Shouldn&#039;t be an audible difference in damping between the amplifiers.&nbsp; About the only time this becomes an issue is when we are dealing with true tube amplifiers (with tubes actually on the outputs and not just in the preamp).Efficiency I considered within the scope of &quot;features&quot;, which is again why I explicitly stated to look for an amplifier that also had the &quot;features&quot; (efficiency, processing, connection layout [all on one side vs opposite ends], physical size, etc) you desired.I wouldn&#039;t consider either of the options you mentioned (or much within their price range) to really be of superior or inferior quality to each other.Yeah, it really is that simple.The problem is people try to make it more difficult than it really is.I do believe the tubes are only in the preamp stage.....it&#039;s not a true tube amplifier.&nbsp; It has a standard solid state output section....and majority of a &quot;tubes sound&quot; comes from them being in the output section of the amplifier where they have a greater effect on distortion performance and damping factor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="squeak9798, post: 3071004, member: 555320"] At the quality level of amplifiers you are looking at, none of them will be overrated or rate their power at more than 1% THD, which is inaudible. None of them are horrendously underrated either.....if you were looking at something like the RF Power or 25-Life series this would be a different story as they output well over rated power (not that underrating is "superior", just a factor that needs considered). Which is precisely why I mentioned "features" in my post.....the crossover is a "feature". Shouldn't be an audible difference in damping between the amplifiers. About the only time this becomes an issue is when we are dealing with true tube amplifiers (with tubes actually on the outputs and not just in the preamp). Efficiency I considered within the scope of "features", which is again why I explicitly stated to look for an amplifier that also had the "features" (efficiency, processing, connection layout [all on one side vs opposite ends], physical size, etc) you desired. I wouldn't consider either of the options you mentioned (or much within their price range) to really be of superior or inferior quality to each other. Yeah, it [I]really is[/I] that simple. The problem is people try to make it more difficult than it really is. I do believe the tubes are only in the preamp stage.....it's not a [I]true[/I] tube amplifier. It has a standard solid state output section....and majority of a "tubes sound" comes from them being in the output section of the amplifier where they have a greater effect on distortion performance and damping factor. [/QUOTE]

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