Virtue Audio sensation opinions

ya, me too.

I have a Virtue 0ne.2 with a sonicap upgrade.
With this upgrade I totally LOVE this amp, The soniccaps smash to pieces the Virtucaps that were in there, IMO it's a huge difference. It came back to me a much more transparent amplifer. The good news is it only cost me $120 more for this.

If I owned Virtue, I personally would not offer the amps with the Virtucaps....why Vail a great amp.
If you use the big power supply's with these amps they sound big and open.

And that's exactly what I wanted, was a big muscle Tripath amp.

The Sensation interest me some, because of the three inputs it has. It's supposed to have a little bit bigger sound, I wonder if it does.

Right now, I'm using my One.2 in place of my Accuphase P-300 power amp (I love the P-300) and don't miss it when the Virtues there. A little different flavor. The Virtue is a musical and fun amp to listen too, with ALOT of detail,not sterile at all. GREAT dynamics make for fun times.

Sensation owners chime in please.

I don't know if I want tubes with the Virtue, I've had tube amps,and liked them plenty, but in the long run the Accuphase stack one out.

I'm very happy with the Virtue I have. I highly recommend them. HUGE bang for your buck. I use an Astron LS-10A power supply with it and that put the amp over the top into great.

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I bought my Astron on eBAy for $75
These units are made for Radar and Ham radios.
It's a 2000 model.
I called Astron and asked if any recalls were associated with this #, they said "no"

Now Astron has had some issues in 2010 with this power supply, and caused Virtue some problems as they offered this to there customers.

So, you would not want to end up with one of those.
If you google this PS online, I think you can find them from $139 to $169 new.

Supposedly Astron recalled the models that had problems.
The Astron is so good, I would buy one again and just check with them to see if the unit I'm getting is OK.

Virtue also offers a PS like the Astron, but costs more.
I'm sure it's a fine unit too.

With the Astron I had to make my own power cord, as it has two bolt ends on the back, with nuts and washers, to tighten wires to the unit.

cool,thanks Ozarktom,

wow! you have had lots of great gear....

I've been doing some comparing with the Accuphase and the Virtue amp.

The Virtue gives more texture to the sound, I'm listening to The Stanely Clarke Band, and in Stanley's playing, you can hear more of his workings with the bass guitar how the strings are hit, his dynamic attack on the strings and other parts of the bass, you hear him change his techniques when playing much easier,just unreal.

I took the unit apart and dampened all the caps and body with blue tack, and I believe this brought out even more focus with the sound.