Has anyboyd used this amp, your thoughts on it

Ok thanks, it says single ended class A, but then goes on to say A/B.  Thanks i will stay away.

There is the musical Paradise MP 301 MK2 the things I've heard about that the amp part for driving speakers is fantastic headphone is okayish not fantastic but decent.

Okay my budget is $1,500 now what other doors does that open up for me?

The glow one looks interesting is that enough power to drive any speakers they’re going to have to be awfully efficient speakers. I was hoping something more in the 6w to 7w range.

Thanks for all your input appreciate everything it seems like a hard thing to fulfill what I want to g to get a good headphone amp and something that will drive speakers all in one package.

I love DIY I would love to build my own I've heard of those kits before I'll have to take a look at that and do some research on that.

Does the R8 have a headphone jack?

You know Steve Guttenberg the audiophiliac did a review on the Dayton audio hta200 and the emotiva a2m the side by side he said the date and audio was pretty good but the emotiva was better but he did like the date and audio and he did listen to the headphone jack.

Cayin make good amps thanks I'll check out those line magnetics.

Yeah they're a Gamble unless you can find a thread here a thread on hifi.org or somewhere where someone's bought one and there's a bunch of people following it in a thread that's probably the only way I would buy one and I actually have found one.

I did find a 709 B amplifier it's a headphone amp / preamp it had about a 40 page following number of years ago but it seems like a good amp and it's been updated I actually purchased it.

I appreciate everybody's input a lot of choices obviously I actually bought a it's a 708 B headphone/ preamp.  What I'm looking for is now some help with E88CC tubes anybody here have any experience with these tubes I'm looking for some good sounding models RCA Mullard anybody have any experience with these?

I will see you at the Tube Addicts meeting ha ha.  What you said though, the Tekefunken name keeps coming up and Seimens, there pricey tubes.  Thanks for you input.

So the headphone output is good on the Wilsenton ?

Yep I saw that no longer making amps I wonder why if they're successful and they're making money why would they stop making amps and they haven't revived that thing in a long time it's a good little lamp I hope they do well with speakers.

No, i didn't buy that one, i found another one off eBay that had a good little following years ago, it will be here next week.

Yes, i know the Muzishare X7 is good, and the Wilsenton R8 i, the problem is the headphone outputs good.  Just because it sounds good on speakers doesn't mean it has a good headphone jack.  A lot of times the headphone jack is an afterthought from audio makers.

I ended up getting this amp

I had a lot of suggestions on here and all were appreciated, but this kind of won out in the end, price, sound.

There is an old thread on this amp on Hi-Fi .org, like 38 pages, and there is a 16-page mod thread on it.  The overall talk was really good so i bought it.

I will say it sounds mean with the Chinese tubes, but when i upgraded to Jan 5670w and 2- 6jd8 buggle boy tubes, wow it woke up and sounded beautiful.  Now given its $250 price tag it's a steal IMO, it smokes my Little Dot Mark II.

I'm going to do the mods inside soon.  It drives my HD 6xx no problems and i can't go past 1 o'clock or it will blow my brains out.  It also makes a fantastic pre-amp, wow it's really good.  Anyway just a follow and thanks for all your help.