I enjoyed a Jolida 502P for years with a very substantial dual mono balanced blah blah preamp (Kavent S-33 Vincent clone), and those were great together (I've been tube guitar amp user for 5 decades). I started learning more about "single ended" tube amps (one of my newer "boutique" guitar amps is single ended) and happened upon a slightly used Dennis Had Firebottle SEP HO (High Output single ended pentode) on Ebay. A relatively low power amp does limit you to higher sensitivity speakers, so there's that, but my Klipsch Heresy IIIs are 99db so this rig can kick it. I also bought a new Schiit Freya so it's all tubular around here, and I've never looked back...the sound my gear pile is now astonishingly well sorted.
Tried tubes and LOVED it, now what?
Hi all, I had Solid state all my life until I bought a used integrated tubes amp Cayin a88-T for $1,000 and love it to death, but after few years, now what? I’m Thinking of movng up the chain but not sure where to go. Most of my speakers are bookshelf and small floorstandings. Thanks