Ok Frantz I get that, I'm getting that
Better late in the day than never
My audio journey went in a particular way when I discovered Zu with its SET friendly/full range/tone dense presentation.
This inevitably led me a few years later to investigate SETs, and the circle was complete
The move to NAT cemented a muscular tubes presentation, tone AND grip, and subsequent tinkering with Duelund caps and Lundahls silver transformers to the Zu sub amps, and gilding the lily with Sablon Reserva PCs with US plugs and Furutech US sockets cemented a sound I could only dream of at the start of my journey
So, here I am very happy to stay for life in the NATs/Zus fold, but catching this Apogee chatter, and hearing from those who use them that the experience is a level beyond the norm
But contemplating Divas means throwing out what I love about my current state of affairs, hence my in retrospect probably naïve thought that I could combine the best of SETs with Apogee
I'm due to hear a well sorted Graz Divas set up at Henk soon
If the experience appears to get me one step closer to God, and the compulsion to own them becomes irreversible, well then SETs will have to go
Agree that tubes in phono, dac, preamp would be the way to get some sort of middle way on tube flavour in a megaWatts Divas setup
I would be interested in seeing what left field candidates for big beastie, high current, high damping factor Class A SS are out there, providing power with a darker tonal character, tone dense to try and emulate the character of good triodes
Tone AND grip please, at a reasonable price tag