"Try to get something used and vintage on the cheap and have it serviced. You don’t need to make a perfect decision on your first try...just get something decent in the 15wpc-35wpc range and you should be fine. Your speakers are pretty efficient so you can really go to town and see what’s out there."
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That sums it up.
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Try a THE FISHER, SCOTT or LAFAYETTE tube amp from 1960-1970.
These are point-to-point soldered and whatever breaks can be replaced.
That can not be said for amps with circuit boards.
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The jump from Solid State to well-done vintage tube amps is VERY EXTREME quality gain. The improvements from one good to a very expensive tube amp less so.
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Vintage tube amps have very good MM phono. So if you are not into Moving Coil, no phono-preamp is needed. (I use a Step-Up-Transformer) .
I was very much into amp shopping and cables - until I found tube gear and now I do not care any more for "better sound".
My system sounds so mellow, musical, transparent and tonally "just right" - with cheap copper cables - that I feel I have my priorities right.
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Stop messing around with expensive cables - start tube rolling with (more or less) expensive tubes.
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That sums it up.
.
Try a THE FISHER, SCOTT or LAFAYETTE tube amp from 1960-1970.
These are point-to-point soldered and whatever breaks can be replaced.
That can not be said for amps with circuit boards.
.
The jump from Solid State to well-done vintage tube amps is VERY EXTREME quality gain. The improvements from one good to a very expensive tube amp less so.
.
Vintage tube amps have very good MM phono. So if you are not into Moving Coil, no phono-preamp is needed. (I use a Step-Up-Transformer) .
I was very much into amp shopping and cables - until I found tube gear and now I do not care any more for "better sound".
My system sounds so mellow, musical, transparent and tonally "just right" - with cheap copper cables - that I feel I have my priorities right.
.
Stop messing around with expensive cables - start tube rolling with (more or less) expensive tubes.