I've recently bought a pair of VR70E's ...done a little work on them but the sound is fantastic....just more real life, sort of organic. These are a push pull type with only [now] a single cap in the signal path with the valves. For a little over £200 and £50 worth of components time and a hot soldering iron, almost can't be beaten. The T-amps were fantastic in the mid and top imagining being there high light. The valves don't quite match up but they are good across the whole audio spetrum. I may biamp using the T-amps for the topend and the valves for the bass, but thats for another day.