I was looking at an Anthem integrated. So having only the tubes on the preamp would be much less troublesome? How often do they usually need to be changed? How do you know when they're going out? Thanks.
I changed my mind.
I want to get a tube amp I think. What about my cd player. It plays sacd's, but it's not all that high end. It's a sony dpv-nc350v. It's a dvd player also. What about the preamp situation. It would be preferable that would work for movies also. I don't think that will be a big problem because movie/music would be coming from the same source. My speakers aren't that highend either. They're Klipsch kg3.5's. I like the horn tweets for the music I listen to(aletrnative/hard rock). I'm just looking to spend no more than $1200. I'm giving up the sub to spend it all on a decenct little tube amp. What else to you need as far as cables and stuff?