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Tube Amp Recommendation

I am looking for a tube amp, if possible, recommendation for driving a pair of Acoustat 44 electrostat speakers. The speakers drop down to nearly 1 ohm at 20hz, so this makes it pretty tough on any type of amp. I am try to keep the price under $1500. Also, I use a Quicksilver full function preamp; I think it's OK, but I'm always open for suggestions.

Thanks in advance

Calvin
tbone

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tbone OP
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Plato, Bob, and Keith,

Thanks for the quick response and information. There is no such thing as bad information and I appreciate it all; that's the only way to learn. I will research your recommendations and see if I can't improve things. Also, I was just reading on the Apogee forum page, that some one was using a Crown Micro amp. I know these amps have a pretty noisy fan, but they are suppose to deliver over 500 watts at 8 ohms and drive down to 2 ohms pretty easy. I just wonder about the quality of the sound.

Calvin
tbone OP
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Thanks everyone for the all the inputs. Well, I wasn't able to find a tube amp that would really do what is need at a budget price. So I ended up buying a Carver Lightstar Reference. While I can still still send this amp in soft clipping, it sounds great. The Acoustat produced bass that I didn't know they were capable of. I have never been a Carver fan, but I must say, they beat the heck out of my Adcom 656 mono-blocks. The sound field is a little in the rear, but very open. I may need to try another preamp. I will try this setup for a while until I find something better, is possible.

Again, thanks,

Calvin
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