Know any tubes that can drive Apogees? Yeah, see that’s the issue for me.
They are literally the ONLY reason I don’t have any current tube amp/gear… but a good tube pre could easily change that. Alas, I’m not likely to ever find any tube amp that could remotely drive them, at least not at less than TOTL Lexus LS price points…
I had a roommate for a year that had stacked quad ESL63s driven by all tube ARC gear. Orgasmic, indeed. Yeah, no real bass, but the musicality of the mids? <shudder>
In college, frat brother’s father in law had an amazing 15ips R2R feeding a Levinson ML2 and thence into small tube monoblocks (alas this was 1979? 78? And don’t remember brand) thence to OG Klipschorns - the biggies. OMG, that was what launched my high end journey.
I get tubes, I love tubes. But I love me my ribbon planar speakers even more. But you can bet I’m watching what
@Jason Stoddard and his boffins might be up to in re: statement tube preamp extremely closely.