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Anyone else constantly curious about amps?

I'll start of by saying I have a really great sounding amp, the Mastersound Dueventi. It's a class-A tube amp running in PSET putting out 20 watts of power, which proves to be plenty in my room. I have other audio upgrades that would be more valuable. I've slowly been replacing cables, a new streamer would probably have the biggest impact in my system next, I'd like a new turntable now that I've stepped up  my cartridge and phonostage... 

But I just keep coming back to amps. For some reason I just feel a need to bring in something new. I can't afford it. It won't be the most high impact in my system. I don't really have anywhere to demo several of these options. But still, I've been on a two week long rabbit hole exploring solid state class A options like Pass and Sugden. I heard a top in system this past weekend with Jeff Rowland driving the system and I forgot how great those can sound, so I'm finding myself looking at their integrated. I know Norma amps sound amazing with my speakers, so I'm always tempted to bump that up the priority list. 

Someone talk me off the ledge and help me with this sickness! 

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irjones
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If I can afford it, I don't really want it. It's not logical, but I like to take time to ponder the pro's and cons. I only recently discovered SHARK (buy reading this sites comments). I planned to upgrade my current amp, a Yamaha AS 701, (something I easily afforded), with a Luxman SS. soon. But now, I can skip this upgrade and go straight to a new valve preamp, and big monoblocks,(used). You see I cannot afford either today, but soon maybe 3 months. To me it is like a hunt, to seek out and acquire somethig that I know will probably be replaced within 6 years. I am learning things like, there will allways be a market for a used pair of KRELLS, but who wants a used YAMAHA budget amp?

sorry to bore you with the obvious.

IAN.

 

irjones
25 posts
 

Oh no, don't start politics in this stream. America was great when all the other countries had thier factories bombed to oblivion. You americans acually profited from WW2. Without paying for any patents for our inventions, like the jet engine, radar, the cavity magnatron, sonar, penicilin, programable computers, rocketry, I could go on. You can keep our gold, and give it to some arsehole aliens, who just pretented to be the 'official aliens'. If you had the chance, you would have voted for Al Capone, or Michael Jackson. Just keep your hands off education.

IAN.

irjones
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PS Thanks for the electric guitar.

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