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In Reply to: RE: Beautiful! Very nice job! posted by airtime on July 10, 2016 at 07:09:44
I think I'm going to stick with my Parasound Halo A21 because I would need a lot more power than the ST-70 to drive my Thiel CS3.7 speakers. I was thinking the minimum would be 125-wpc with something like the VTA M-125 Monoblocks.
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These will be my next amps. I love the look of the monoblocks and the power rating should be able to handle most speakers I throw at them. Price is right as well.
Some pretty sweet amps. I had the original versions with upgrade boards and KT-88's. They were fabulous. I can only imagine with Bob Latino's full blown out modern version how nice they must sound.
I didn't need that much power so I went for the 70 and never looked back. One of the best amps I have ever heard. Both in SS and tube form. Read my review somewhere on this forum. I described the amps as follows. If you were blind folded and walking into a room, you couldn't tell if they were tubes or a $15k SS amp. These are NOT your fathers dynaco amps.
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...matching Eros phono stage
Bottlehead are very pretty when the builder puts a little extra love into the design. I still rue the day i sold my Paramours.
Edits: 07/11/16
Can you post a picture with a clearer view of the cabinetwork? What wood is that? I want to see more of that wood!!!!
It's ebony. I have a closeup somewhere but I have to look for it. I don't have the amps or Foreplay anymore. I chromed the caps on the transformers at a local chrome shop and polished the outside brackets of the chokes. The boxes were "easy" to veneer after first failing at a piano black finish and one expensive set of burl veneer. I finally gave it and had a cabinetmaker apply the finish and correct some small errors I made. The end result was totally worth the effort. Had I kept them I probably would have had the aluminum chassis anodized.
Unfortunately the new kits are way above my budget but if you want to make a kit, few have better instructions and support than bottlehead. Plus for under $600 at the time, nothing could touch the 2A3 sound this setup had paired with my Hornshoppe horns.
EBONY! Wow.. Hardwood or veneer? That much Gaboon ebony lumber would cost a FORTUNE! So I am guessing veneer.
Yes veneer. The birchwood cabinets were veneered with the ebony. Turned out very nice. Sounded even better than they looked!
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