I have a New York Audio Labs Moscode 300 (which I may wrongly think is connected to the originator of the Futterman amps) and it was super nice. For some reason, it stopped working and it's been sitting at my brother's house for about a decade. Maybe it's time to look into reviving it!
Futterman. Jump in? Or, not so fast...
Today I heard a Futterman OTL powering a pair of Quad ESL57s. The Futterman has been recently serviced and is in nice shape. It sounded wonderful. I understand this is a rare beast.
I've been advised a set of tubes can last 10,000 hours. But these are not common tubes and they need to be closely matched, an their are 12 of them. If I were to buy this amp I'd immediately start worrying about putting together a backup set of spares, which could run into quite a bit of money.
So - Futterman owners - what say ye? Jump on the chance to own a legend? Or stick with my "set and forget" Quad 909 powering my ESL 2805s...
I've been advised a set of tubes can last 10,000 hours. But these are not common tubes and they need to be closely matched, an their are 12 of them. If I were to buy this amp I'd immediately start worrying about putting together a backup set of spares, which could run into quite a bit of money.
So - Futterman owners - what say ye? Jump on the chance to own a legend? Or stick with my "set and forget" Quad 909 powering my ESL 2805s...