CJSF
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CnoEvil said:drummerman said:Good and bad ones abound. A decent Valve amplifier will cost, not least because good transformers are expensive and casings are not mass produced. Economy of scale et all. They will almost inevitably be less powerful than a SS equivelant, have more distortion/measure worse and require more careful speaker choice. Add finite life span of tubes and their replacement cost to make it even more attractive.
Considering all that, it is a miracle that anyone would still use them though I myself have heard lovely ones and used to own one.
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I agree, and it was for all those reasons that I went for SS Class A......but Valves can give a taste of that for less money. I like what the Pure Sound A30 can do, and it can be had ex-dem for £1k.
I've said it before on the thread . . . Croft Hybrid Integrated have the best of all worlds, £1000 new, hard wired, no PC board, no compromise . . .
CJSF