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Nicely built, nice-sounding tube amp. I read a bunch of mixed reviews, but after owning for a few weeks, I'm very pleased. Powers my JBL 8" 3-way monitors just fine, though I wish there was a little more headroom. The sound is excellent. Good value for my first foray into analog listening.
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Overall a very good high fidelity stereo tube amp. Worked great out of the box. I did change out the 5U4C directly heated cathode rectifier with a GZ34 indirectly heated rectifier. This allows the high voltage to come up slowly while the rectifier is heating up, saving stress on the other tubes. The 6H8C preamp tubes were okay for a couple of days... the right channel tube starting crackling and making hissing noises after two days of use. The left channel tube was very microphonic also after a couple of days. I replaced them with a matched set of NOS NIB Sylvania 6SN7GTB tubes, which are a direct recommended tube. Their sound and overall quality is way superior to the Chinese 6H8C tubes which came with the amp. I am now very pleased with the sound of this amp, it took about 7 days of use or about 50 hours on the tubes to break them in and their sounding wonderful The depth of a single-ended tube amp is hard to beat! Especially when running this through a pair of KLIPSCH R41M Bookshelf Bass Reflex monitor speakers.Read full review
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VERY GOOD SINGLE ENDED AMP. IF YOU UPGRADE THE TUBES IT WILL REALLY SOUND WONDERFUL
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Takes about 15 hours to break in,after that it just keeps sounding better,use with high sensitivity speaker,90 dB or better and you'll have some very good high end sound. Would buy again,very happy.
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Nice amp with enough power for a pair of 100 watt speakers but you will need a preamp.
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