devilboy:just yesterday I spent 2 hours between a pair of Harbeth M40.2 speakers driven by a Hegel H590 & cabled up with several thousand $ of Cardas cables,talk about overhyped,You can keep your hegel,I would rather have my Cayin any day! |
plus for Cayin I've heard, and owned several tube amps, receivers, and last year sold my McIntosh SS amp and preamp, to get back to tubes. Needed 16 ohm taps for my speakers, found and bought Cayin Tube Integrated, AT88. Sound: it never occurs to me to think about anything else. Features: I wish it had external 'safe' bias adjustment (later models do, but lack 16 ohm taps). Also missing: I prefer having a balance control, and a low volume listening loudness control. I get both from my Chase Remote Line Controller, RLC-1 which I would never be without. |
Freediver, Mastersound has a reputation for building their own high quality transformers. I like that the Box is a pure class A circuit parallel SEP (Pentode el 34 probably wired for triode mode). Weighs a hefty 53 pounds. I suspect it is a well built excellent (Natural/organic) sounding amplifier. On paper it seems quite impressive. Charles |
