Compact Low-Powered Amp Recomendations?

Hummm, the seller of those ASL WAVE 8's is asking nearly double what they sold for brand new a few years ago. Admittedly they were a bargain at $99/ea. (no cage), $119/ea. (w/tube cage), but $400 seems a bit obscene to me.

Another nice choice would be a Sophia Baby. I saw one here recently for $295. There is a small tube amp kit called SPUD being sold on the Hawthorne Audio site for $285. You would need to build it, but it looks like an easy build.

You might want to consider the simplicity of something like the Trends 10.1. It cost $150 brand new and it has gotten excellent reviews. Another choice might be the Super-T amp from Sonic Impact, $139 brand new and it has also gotten favorable reviews. Both the Trends and SI Super-T would produce basically zero noticable heat.

Enjoy,

TIC

I have a Sophia Baby...very nice. Also Sophia made an el34 amp that has been dc'd but is available on A'gon for 400 to 500

All,

Thanks for the feedback. I am now leaning more towards the purchase of a low powered integrated (more flexible). Any ideas?

Steve

Second the sophia reccomendations. Also that Trends unit mentioned before is absolutely stunning. www.audiomagus.com sells them in stock ot tweaked form.

I had a stock baby and a stock trends driving bg ribbon monitors and while both were good, the trends high frequency pureness stol the show.

All,

Thanks for the feedback. I am now leaning more towards the purchase of a low powered integrated (more flexible). Any ideas?

Steve