Thank you. The 300B's are really a dream come true. they are sweet but roar when they need to. The Wyetch Topaz 872-10 SET is pretty amazing too.As a matter of fact the 300B's are a more full and slightly warmer sound but the SET leaves nothing to be desired.
I sure do too. I listened to a bunch of speakers when I was replacing my Brentworth Sound Lab single drivers. Nothing appealed to me; Magico, Harbeth, Dynaudio etc. As a last resort the salesman pulled out the O96’s and within a minute I knew that was the sound I was after. 5 years later they have the same impact on me as they did the first time I heard them.
The love of tubes is a result of my loving Ampeg tube bass amps and the tube table radios we had in our home when I was a kid. All of the recordings I love were mostly done analog on tube gear with tube mics. The idea of lower power tube amps and high efficiency speakers has always appealed to me and sounded best to my ears.