If you love tubes, have some coin, and a little patience here’s 2 you should check out:
1. Leben CS-600
2. Allnic T-1500, Mkii
The ones on your shortlist are great, these are excellent with Devore high efficiency speakers.
Cheers!
Integrated for Devore O/93
I just got a pair from a friend of O/93, after tried several speakers in the last 5 years, these ones got the soul I’m after of.
When I had them, used to run with a Mastersound Dueventi, EL34 based amp very nice phono stage and so, there was some magic in it, now I can go for any of these:
Octave V70 Class A. Really liked all about this "little" german fella, very neutral and punchy presentation, awesome build quality. Pretty good phono stage.
Octave V16. 300B? why not? always loved them.
Mastersound Duetrenta or new Icona or just go for the Compact 845, why not come back to my favs tube amps? very good looking and wonderful sounding machines, used to have Compact 300B and Dueventi, but lately I’m enjoying KT’s lamps, they are not as magical but very well controlled and extended in the extremes freqs. and with real punch in the bass department, that’s why Duetrenta or Icona, pure Class A Single Ended ones, with a Triode/Pentode switch (with Devore’s Triode sounded more magical but Pentode with balls and really nice separation).
Copland CT408/407, heard amazing things about this danish integrated with a very good phono stage.
Western Electric 91E. Only read about it, but looks absolutely brilliant.
Rest of the system is a Kuzma Stabi R with a Zyx Ultimate 100 and Acoustic Plan DAC/Lumin U mini.
Ideally, one of those integrated is what I’d like to get, no more otherwise my brain will explode looking for choices so I’ll appreciate if U can tell me a little bit bout them.
In the future would love to upgrade to O/96’s but will be in 2-3 years so need a real good partner for them.
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Check into Line Magnetic, 805ia, 845ia, or 845 premium. I had the O/93 with the 845ia and I really enjoyed that experience. I also tried a higher powered Audio Hungary Class A tube and solid state Aavik integrated and the Line Magnetic just had better synergy with the DeVores. I've since upgraded to the O/96 using the same 845ia and it's a wonderful match. I upgraded the front end tubes which made a nice difference. Currently planning to upgrade to the 845 premium when Tone Imports get them back in stock. Check this review of the 845ia, mentions the O/93 and how it was a great pairing: Twittering Machines 845ia review
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Thank You guys! What a hard choice! V70 or Duetrenta! Don't U think the mastersound amps are more powerful having same or less wpc? maybe are the current? the transformers? |
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