Please do not expect the typical "tube sound" from this setup. The performance is of high-level musicality, clear up to the highest notes, but never hard or analytic. There is always this fascinating liveliness in the midrange, presenting the music very powerfully, solidly in between the speakers. Listening to the Concierto de Aranjuez from Joaquín Rodrigo in the recording with Pepe Romero and the Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Neville Marriner (Joaquin Rodrigo: Complete Concertos for Guitar and Harp – Philips Classics), there are so many wonderful moments. During the first set, with its powerful rhythm, the hard beaten strings of the guitar are reproduced in great clearness and acting in contrast to the smooth strings of the orchestra. During the slow second set, the meditative dialog between the guitar and the French horns sound mellow and empathetic. In total, there is a kind of musical flow created, which one can experience on rare occasions only. Everything is being connected in a symbiotic way, which one might call "addicted to harmony." Maybe you now understand better my suffering from what appears to be a sort of withdrawal symptoms, since this amp is not playing in my system anymore!