compact ________?
We really know what we own or have known,
My Cayin AT88 is not compact, a ’regular’ sized tube amp, 45 wpc. It had to sound as good as my Fisher 80az mono blocks made in 1958, it does, and gave me remote volume, which allowed me to use a vintage tube preamp with no remote anything.
If interested, get a later model with external bias, I needed 16 ohm taps, only m1 has those. later have 4ohm and 8 ohm taps
6 moons review convinced me to try it, glad I did
https://6moons.com/audioreviews/cayin/a88t.html