Integrated that blew you away

For solid state, Luxman 590axii (and the 595 SE)

 

for tubes, and my absolute favorite, MadterSound Compact 845. It’s an absolute champion of portraying “live” putting you right in the middle of the performance. Eerie real!!!!

https://6moons.com/audioreviews/cayin/a88t.html

I truly love the sound of the 6snl and 6sl7 tubes, (all prior owned units used 12’s), and I changed and prefer KT88’s to the 6550 it came with

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budget

tubes or SS?

consolidating phono setup, i.e. want option of MM Phono built-in?

features: mode/mono/balance/tape loop ....

rca or xlr options?

how much power ______?

still using efficient Klipsch Speakers? those allow a not too big tube integrated

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I love my Cayin A88T Tube Integrated, but I need features of other equipment, and the MK1 version has been updated to external bias which I would much prefer (but they dropped the 16 ohm taps).

I wanted tubes, modern remote volume, thus newer integrated. Had to sound as good as my Fisher 80AZ Mono tube amps, after research I tried and kept it.

replaced these

https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/650129374-fisher-80-az-tube-power-amp/images/5220361/

 

It has no Mode switch, no balance switch, and bias is difficult internal adjusters, but I needed that MK1 version to get 16 ohm taps for my speakers with 16 ohm drivers/level controls from 1958.

 

In the end, I added a McIntosh tube tuner preamp tor it’s wonderful features and mode switch, and run that to a Chase RLC-1 remote line controller to get remote balance, a feature I really love and encourage.

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I never saw or heard one, I noticed, the Cyrus i7XR mentioned above by oddiofyl has the rare remote balance feature in a compact SS Integrated with MM Phono. there is it’s bigger brother i9XR, but I think the 7 is enough for your Klipsch speakers. 

 

 

I've had a couple. The first was one you probably never heard of: the Dussun V8i. Great amp...Chinese made...I think pretty much a Mark Levinson.

And now my current one: Anthem STR. It does everything and does it all VERY well. 

Bel Canto EX1, pure music, back backgrounds this is my SS choice

Tubes Qualiton X200 is spectacular and again pure music no real coloration other than it is a tube integrated.

Hybrid Canor AI 2.10 and the Pathos Remix In-Pol. 

Accuphase E-650 - Class A, 30W. The newer version is E-700. In a right setup (like mine, paired with Tannoy’s Canterbury) you’re treated with refined, organic and effortless presentation. Accuphase sound is about graceful precision, where everything feels perfectly in place, nothing overstated and more importantly nothing missing.