Welcome back craig - haven't heard from you for a while.
I too enjoy my tube amp; however, being a modern design, I don't notice any distortion like an electric guitar tube amp can induce by over driving the tubes. One would have to drive it pretty hard to make it audibly distort but by that time one's hearing would be in jeopardy.
I still prefer CD/SACD music to anything on vinyl, simply due to its superior dynamic range & lack of surface noise & clicks & pops. Well recorded & mixed digital music (sometimes hard to find), such as all of Clapton's productions over the past decade, are nothing but superb. My tubes, CD/SACDs, M2s & EP400s are simply spectacular on that system - to me & to anyone else who has heard it.
Still snow on my palm tree out here on the left coast, ha!
TAM
