Gainclone vs. Pure Class-A

Anyone have any experiences/opinions with the sound quality of one of these gainclone amps kits (i.e., like Rawsonte or Audio Sector, 50 watt range), vs a basic pure class-a solid state amp in the 5-20 watt range?

charlie852102-28-2007 12:54am

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armstrod Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 601 posts 10-06-2010 at 05:42am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I've owned Monarchy SM-70 Pro monoblocks, a Rawson First Watt F4 clone, and now an Audiosector Patek. All are great in different ways. The Monarchys were the most tube-like, ran very hot, and were too noisy into my Zu Druids. The Rawson ran extremely hot, was a little more neutral than the Monarchys, was dead quiet, but ran out of gas when I turned it up. The Patek is very neutral, also dead quiet, has plenty of power, and never even gets warm. All were run with tube preamps (Wright WLA12A, Jolida Music Envoy, now Consonance Cyber 222) and right now I'm pretty happy with the 6SN7 preamp and gainclone combo. David

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