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Tube amp recommendation

My current amp is dying and therefore I am in the market for a new amp. I got my current amp back in my university daze (solid state, over 10 years old and cheap). Perhaps I should have upgraded years ago, but it served me well and I was happy enough with it (and spent the money on records instead).

I have always been impressed by the sound that tube amps generate and hence believe that my current amp is giving me the push to go finally into the tube world. I have read various items on this website (and a few others) and have a bit of confusion (and hence some questions).

Now pieces of information about me...
1) I like to listen to large assortment of music (old skool reggae, bad electronic music, the occasional rock record, various jazz items, sometimes even hiphop). Often I listen to stuff in what seems like an random order.
2) I am rather lazy on my days off (when I listen to music most of the time).

With these two points I mean I don't really want to change a set of tubes because my music selection is a sometimes bit schizophrenic. I don't want to manually adjust bias settings every Saturday morning (occasionally fair enough).

Therefore, can anyone recommend any tube amps that are in the entry - mid level for me?
dennyc

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dennyc OP
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Hi and thanks for all of the responses. I haven't been able to reply until now since I had a few meetings to attend and a snow storm to deal with. I will look at the various recommendations (particularly the car, sonic frontiers and the jolida)

As for the various questions...

Speakers... I have an old set of 8 ohm speakers that claim to have 90 db sensitivity. However, I have been looking at various things lately.

My Goal... quality watts not a quantity of watts

Budget... 1000-1400 or so (spending less is ok as well). I like my music, but want to keep a limit because of the current economic climate.

Style... I should have said integrated in my first post

I have been looking at various jolida products and then I saw this
posting (particularly the third photo) and started to wonder if I had to calibrate the bias each time I wanted to do some 'chillaxin'.

Thanks again.
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