Audio Research I/50

I’m an AR I50 buyer and I want easy or auto bias and don’t want to mess around with tubes, changing or rolling tubes. The tube rollers and tube biasers may want to focus elsewhere.

But I really want the AR sound in something I can afford and a simple good looking integrated ......and the proof is in the listening - when I heard this amp driving Maggie 1.7i speakers the sound was clear, detailed, spacious and sounded terrific.

Balanced Audio Technology VK-3000SE (replaced by VK-3500 which is, I believe, same internals in a new box). I used Audio Research for ten years then switched to BAT and never felt I was missing anything. BAT is just pure music. 

@malibu457 , the reason there is no auto bias is because there isn't room to fit it , I saw a very interesting video on Youtube where they explain the ( few ) trade offs due to price but mainly design limitations in that chassis , which apparently wasn't originally an in house ARC design but elsewhere in the MacIntosh Group .

A great video that answers many questions regarding the I/50 . 

what U think guys comparing this to a Leben CS-600 or CS-600X? or with a traditional SET 300B or 300B XLS?

JBL 4349, Zu or Klipsch pairing.