Dennis Had FIRE 300 B tube SET

I have a KT88 Fire Bottle, awesome little amp.  No preamp into Klipsch Forte’s @99 dB sensitive.  Superb soundstage and imagery.  Dead silent when no signal, you’re going to love the 300b with good speaker match. 

I see Quicksilver Audio mentioned here.  I stopped by their Website yesterday and it seems that Mike is now only manufacturing two lower powered pairs of monoblock amplifiers (The KT mono and Mid mono) and an integrated amplifier.  He still has a few different preamplifiers for sale  though and of course, his headphone  amplifier. 

I have Dennis's PSE-300B amp and love it.  I ordered on a whim to compare to my Coincident Frankenstein 300B monoblocks which have handily bested all comers over the last 7 years.  Well, the PSE crushed the Frankies in most areas over the course of a 4 week A/B period.  I ended up selling my long time Frankies and have not regretted for one minute since.

I see Quicksilver Audio mentioned here. I stopped by their Website yesterday and it seems that Mike is now only manufacturing two lower powered pairs of monoblock amplifiers (The KT mono and Mid mono) and an integrated amplifier. He still has a few different preamplifiers for sale though and of course, his headphone amplifier.

Interestingly, the downsizing of amps came about for multiple reasons as I understand it.  Mike was able to consolidate the former push pull Mono 60, 80, and Mono 120 amps into single amp to run all of the larger KT tubes ranging from KT66 to KT170s for higher power applications, yet with lower power now gives delicacy of lower power amp sound. Not sure how he pulled this off, but it works.

The Mid-Mono ("50% Triode" - Ultralinear) as he calls it, remains, essentially more optimized for EL34, KT77, yet can run up to KT120. Another point of consolidation.

And of course the neat little EL84 integrated and the headphone amp, and one Linestage.

As a former Inspire amp owner myself, I’ve been following along with folks who’ve added the Quicksilver Mid Mono amps into their collection with higher efficiency horns speakers. I’d love to put Dennis’ 2030 or CJ5 preamp in front of the new Quicksilver Mid Mono amps to see how that sounds. Good fun.

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thanks for the ok on the Rogue RP-1. Using it at all was a big step for me. The Bluesound Node v3 was my preamp/streamer for a long time, especially with a handy remote. But then came an external DAC add-on with the Denafrips Ares ii, and a huge improvement to the sound of the Bluesound Node when it is at FIXED volume, (with a preamp now), over its use in VARIABLE volume levels.
And one can program a preset to TV with that remote, whereby VOLUME changes between streaming and TV are drastically varied…. ( really need the Rogue remote to adjust away from my wife’s complaints of “ turn the bass down”, in shared wall scenario). Pairing the Inspire 300 B with the Inspire 2030 preamp was a thought, but no remote unfortunately. And it wouldn’t be very cost-effective but a beautiful matching pair to look at would have been nice.
Awaiting the “signature delivery “ from FEDEX😟, of my Inspire 300 Bv … already two hours late of forecasted 4-hour OUT FOR DELIVERY window. Why did SELLER choose them over UPS?