Jpepper, glad to hear you like the Maker. I just sold my Conrad Johnson Premier 140 with the teflon upgrades to purchase a Maker Ref2 stereo amp. I have not received it yet. Comes in the mail on Monday. I am all butterflies now. I gave up a huge amp. Huge as in wonderful performance. Very solid, powerful, musical, non fatiguing etc. I really love the tube sound. However, I hate looking at the mess of gear in my living room and I needed something that could hide. I could not enclose (8) KT120 tubes, so I am moving to solid state. I really loved the sound from my old amp. At least I will be fronting the Maker with a Tube preamp, (First Sound Mark 3). I also have 3 way Sonus Faber Luito speakers so I have a warm sounding speaker. A lot of people said I should be running those speakers with solid state, so I took the dive. Thanks for the positive review. I have heard other people like this amp and I bought it sound unheard. Very nervous. I just could not see spending 30K or 50K for something like the Dan Dagostino. Thats crazy money to me.
I will report what I hear once I have it in the system and do some tuning.
I will report what I hear once I have it in the system and do some tuning.