Mesa Engineering Baron vacuum tube power amplifier


Does anyone still own a Mesa Engineering Baron vacuum tube power amplifier from the 1990’s? It was Randall Smith’s (of Mesa Boogie fame) first, and penultimate, foray into the audiophile realm.

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jasonbourne71:  You should see the review the long departed and deeply

missed Audio magazine gave to it in their December 1996 issue. I saved that issue for some reason…

cleeds:  Their second effort was an amp called the Tigris.  It was based on multiple EL84 output tubes using their “Tandem-State Imaging” system.  The Baron used six 5881 outputs per channel.  Both amps used this system that offered both triode and pentode operation plus two intermediate modes.