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Q9. Why choose a hybrid amplifier ?

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Tube amplifier mostly have very good sound quality as well as good depth and air  of sound stage . Transistor amplifier have a very tight and well controlled bass response and fast attack dynamics. So a well designed hybrid amplifier should have both the advantages of tube amp and transistor amp, that is very sweet sounding, good air, good sound stage, warm and rich , with a well defined punchy and rich tight bass.

If your listening interest is for classical music, vocal, opera, slow jazz , slow pop, real instruments and easy listening, you should choose an all tube amplifier. On the other hands, if you like rock music, heavy metal, fast pop , dance music then you should choose transistor amplifier. But in case you want to listen to everything, or you just don't want to limit your specturm of music, then a well designed hybrid amplifier is the best way to go. Another good way to use a hybrid amplifier is to drive the low bass section of a bi-wire speaker, and drive the mid and high section with a single-ended or push-pull tube amplifier.

The price per wattage of a hybrid amp is always bang-for-buck, for the same output power compare with pure tube amp, you will just need to pay a fraction of the price. For example, our hybrid amp is single-ended design in tube section, so our 100W hybrid amp is virtually a single-end tube amplifier without output transformer , and can give out a 100W of dynamics and control. Typically a 100W single-ended amp will cost somewhere around $20,000 to $30,000, but a 100W hybrid cost only $2,000. By using a 100W hybrid and a 25W single-ended amplifier as a bi-amp system, the performance can easily surpass a 100W single-ended tube amplifier, and the cost is only around $5,000, just 1/4 to 1/5 of the high power single-ended amplifier. Of course you speaker must be capable of bi-amping to take advantage of this options.

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