Looking For A New Tube Integrated Amp With Very Specific Features

 balanced inputs require double the circuitry

@faustuss This bit is false. You do need more circuitry, but not double! If the circuit is differential, the parts count is lower than if it is balanced but not differential.

Our Gem integrated amplifier, which is balanced (but only has single-ended inputs) has no more parts in it than a regular push pull amp of conventional design. 

@atmasphere 

" balanced inputs require double the circuitry

@faustuss This bit is false. You do need more circuitry, but not double! If the circuit is differential, the parts count is lower than if it is balanced but not differential.

Our Gem integrated amplifier, which is balanced (but only has single-ended inputs) has no more parts in it than a regular push pull amp of conventional design."

A solid-state circuit using an NPN and a PNP similar in configuration to a solid-state class AB power amplifier. Kind of defeats the purpose of an all-tube preamp or line stage. Single ended input to me would be the purist approach and the fact we're most likely to use short interconnects and noise wouldn't be a factor as in long ones.

A solid-state circuit using an NPN and a PNP similar in configuration to a solid-state class AB power amplifier. Kind of defeats the purpose of an all-tube preamp or line stage. Single ended input to me would be the purist approach and the fact we're most likely to use short interconnects and noise wouldn't be a factor as in long ones.

@faustuss The amp I was describing in my prior post is a tube amp. Its very compact and makes 5 Watts/channel class A. It has 3 tubes per channel, the same number you would have if driving the power tubes with a conventional (not balanced) Voltage amplifier/driver circuit. The parts count is the same. 

If you meant something else by your comment it went right over my head. 

@atmasphere 

"If you meant something else by your comment it went right over my head."

I was responding to your statement about this -

"If the circuit is differential, the parts count is lower than if it is balanced but not differential."

You could have said "long tailed pair".