You want to hear a pleasant musical treat. Get yourself a pair of ASL wave 8's, a reasonable tube pre-amp that wont get in the way too much, a digital or analog source and feed the works into a pair of Meadowlark Kestrel Hot Rod loudspeakers and get ready to smile..
Review: Antique Sound Labs Wave 8 Tube amp
Category: Amplifiers
ASL Wave 8 MonoBlock Amplifiers
I bought a pair of these little 10 watt amplifiers for a stereo system for my 7 year old son. I figured, at that price($200.00 a pair) he could ruin them and it wouldn’t matter, I could afford another pair!
When I took them out of the box, I was amazed at how heavy and how well built they looked. They are cute little amps!
I hooked them up to some old Klipsch Heresy speakers I had put in the attic years ago, and a cheap Sony CD player. Now, for the moment of truth. WOW!!! These little amps are AMAZING!! The mids and highs were spectacular. There was plenty of pace between instruments. The sound stage was wide and deep. Voices sound as if you are standing in the vocalists throat. The only weakness I could find is that the bass was a little lacking. Over all these amps sound really good.
I have an all Mcintosh system, that I use Klipschorn speakers with. After hearing the Wave’s I was afraid to hook them up to my Kilpschorns. I was afraid that they were going to sound better than my expensive system. How could I explain that to my wife? She let me spend all that money on my system, and now these little Wave’s blow away that system. Well, I hooked it up when she wasn’t home! My Kilipschorns sounded really nice. The only place that I could find fault with these little Wave’s is the bass. I have to say the difference between my expensive Mcintosh amps and these little Wave’s isn’t all that much. For $200.00 these amps are an amazing deal that you should not pass up. I wish the Wave 8’s were around years ago when I bough my Mcintosh. I could have saved a lot of money.
Associated gear
Klipsch Heresy speakers, Bottlehead Foreplay preamp, old Sony cd player
ASL Wave 8 MonoBlock Amplifiers
I bought a pair of these little 10 watt amplifiers for a stereo system for my 7 year old son. I figured, at that price($200.00 a pair) he could ruin them and it wouldn’t matter, I could afford another pair!
When I took them out of the box, I was amazed at how heavy and how well built they looked. They are cute little amps!
I hooked them up to some old Klipsch Heresy speakers I had put in the attic years ago, and a cheap Sony CD player. Now, for the moment of truth. WOW!!! These little amps are AMAZING!! The mids and highs were spectacular. There was plenty of pace between instruments. The sound stage was wide and deep. Voices sound as if you are standing in the vocalists throat. The only weakness I could find is that the bass was a little lacking. Over all these amps sound really good.
I have an all Mcintosh system, that I use Klipschorn speakers with. After hearing the Wave’s I was afraid to hook them up to my Kilpschorns. I was afraid that they were going to sound better than my expensive system. How could I explain that to my wife? She let me spend all that money on my system, and now these little Wave’s blow away that system. Well, I hooked it up when she wasn’t home! My Kilipschorns sounded really nice. The only place that I could find fault with these little Wave’s is the bass. I have to say the difference between my expensive Mcintosh amps and these little Wave’s isn’t all that much. For $200.00 these amps are an amazing deal that you should not pass up. I wish the Wave 8’s were around years ago when I bough my Mcintosh. I could have saved a lot of money.
Associated gear
Klipsch Heresy speakers, Bottlehead Foreplay preamp, old Sony cd player
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