In Reply to: maybe; maybe not posted by wazoo on January 27, 2012 at 15:04:30:
Hmmm...for someone who has admittedly almost no valve experience you sure seem to know what they will sound like in advance. All those POSSIBLE flaws. You will notice that I was rather selective with my advice and not saying try any old 845 or 211 amp. There is one I forgot though that is really good, the Wyetech Labs amps (all models). They might be a tad underpowered but the big monoblocks have enough umph.
Oh, and there are several quite powerful beasts from NAT and having heard one of them I can tell you that they play at as high or higher level than VAC...which is quite good.
The well designed amps I listed don't suffer most of the problems you list. So what if they are high voltage? The best ones have excellent linearity, especially as a function of frequency...something most SS amps cannot claim.
Go listen and prepare to be further amazed...
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- RE: maybe; maybe not - morricab 01:46:09 01/29/12 (38)
- very old information - wazoo 09:43:30 01/29/12 (32)
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- no argument - no problem - wazoo 12:57:32 01/31/12 (18)
- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 04:42:32 02/01/12 (17)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 08:50:22 02/01/12 (16)
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- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 11:42:58 02/08/12 (4)
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- RE: no argument - no problem - morricab 02:19:35 02/10/12 (1)
- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 07:03:31 02/10/12 (0)
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- RE: no argument - no problem - Medium Jim 21:36:58 02/03/12 (0)
- Final Thoughts - Medium Jim 09:36:45 02/02/12 (1)
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- RE: very old information - Medium Jim 14:38:05 01/29/12 (7)
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- then, you see my point... - wazoo 11:36:04 01/29/12 (2)
- RE: then, you see my point... - Medium Jim 12:06:24 01/29/12 (1)
- RE: then, you see my point... - morricab 13:20:52 01/29/12 (0)
- Not to stoke the fire... - Medium Jim 09:28:07 01/29/12 (4)
- RE: Not to stoke the fire... - morricab 02:18:59 01/31/12 (3)
- RE: Not to stoke the fire... - Medium Jim 07:13:10 01/31/12 (2)
- RE: Not to stoke the fire... - morricab 04:28:57 02/01/12 (1)
- NITA nt - Medium Jim 07:20:15 02/01/12 (0)