Vincent SV-500MK and CANTO 5

Audiophiles all over the world love the sound of vacuum tubes. That's why the German manufacturer Vincent Audio puts tubes in as many of its products as possible.

The main trouble with tubes, however, is that big high-output power tubes can fail when they are stressed. That's why Vincent Audio has created a special class of amplifiers called "hybrids." They use vacuum tubes where they do the most good – in the preamp stages – and solid state devices for power output to the speakers. Many audiophiles around the world have found this combination of vacuum tube and solid state to be a marriage made in heaven