I go with the consensus and think the gamble will pay off.
I own the 30.5 and am impressed with how well it does at low power levels which is where I would imagine you would be with your AG's.
Below is a quote from Nelson Pass's paper, "Leaving Class A" at the Passlabs website:
"We apply a single-ended Class A bias at about 10% of the push-pull Class A bias. This is sufficient to improve the performance around 1 watt and below." also that single ended class A is considered the "king of class A".
Food for thought:
If a speaker is rated to give 100 db from 1 watt, it will take 1/10th of a watt to produce 90 db, 1/100 of a watt for 80, 1/1000 of a watt for 70. Of course other factors like room size and distance from speakers have to be figured in but I believe that not only that "the first watt" is important but the fractions below it are too, especially if you like low level listening and/or the decay of notes/sounds. Good luck.
I own the 30.5 and am impressed with how well it does at low power levels which is where I would imagine you would be with your AG's.
Below is a quote from Nelson Pass's paper, "Leaving Class A" at the Passlabs website:
"We apply a single-ended Class A bias at about 10% of the push-pull Class A bias. This is sufficient to improve the performance around 1 watt and below." also that single ended class A is considered the "king of class A".
Food for thought:
If a speaker is rated to give 100 db from 1 watt, it will take 1/10th of a watt to produce 90 db, 1/100 of a watt for 80, 1/1000 of a watt for 70. Of course other factors like room size and distance from speakers have to be figured in but I believe that not only that "the first watt" is important but the fractions below it are too, especially if you like low level listening and/or the decay of notes/sounds. Good luck.