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| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Mike, these won't bankrupt you, and will set a standard for any high-priced offerings you care to audition later.https://silversonic.com/products/speaker-cables/q-10-signature/ | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Here's another option in that same price range for a tonearm cable. I don't have one, but my speaker cables & interconnects are from DH Labs, and I like them a lot.https://silversonic.com/products/phono-cables/dimension-phono-cable/ | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Mike, anything reasonable won’t be an issue. You’ll have to look for it, but I had some Belden plenum-rated braided wire that was great. Basically, zip-wire on steroids. Bought it originally for some low-voltage wiring, used the remainder short-te... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Mike, get the amp & speakers up and running, break them in for a few weeks with some basic cable & connectors. Then start changing things systematically. Otherwise, you'll really have no idea if you're making a worthwhile improvement, or n... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Personally, I'd discard the idea that your cables should be x% of your system, at least to start. Put some hours on the new amp & speakers. | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Mike, enjoy that amp. Lift with your legs, not your back. You might take a look at DH Labs for cables & interconnects. | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. There’s a used L-509X listed here now for $6495/make offer. This is Luxman’s brand new top of the line A/B integrated, $9500 new. Obviously, it’s your money, Mike. It looks brand new.https://www.stereophile.com/content/luxman-l-509x-integrated-amp... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Luxman's lowest end integrated was built in China, and considerably cheaper. That was a few years back, and I don't know anymore about it.https://onahighernote.com/shop/integrated-amps/luxman-l-350aii-pure-class-a-integrated-amp/ | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. I only have a sample of one, so my input can't be worth much, but I certainly wouldn't describe my Luxman as "warm". | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Mike, I understand what you're saying about not wanted to buy used, but I'll still throw this out there. My amp was $10,000 new, something I could not have justified as a purchase. So I looked at the used offerings until I found one that was prist... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. New or used, my only point is that the Class A Luxman amps aren't nearly the low-powered pieces that the official specs indicate. I can't compare them to other brands, I don't have the broad experience with lots of other gear that so many others h... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Yeah, Luxman class A within your budget is $5.5k, 40 watt/ch/4ohm. If it is a very conservative figure - it might be enough for moderate level listening, I don’t know. Could be interesting to compare it to Luxman A/B, $4.5k. My wild guess - depend... | |
| Please tutor me on some integrated amp basics. Contrary to Luxman’s published specs, the L-590AX puts out in excess of 90wpc into 8ohms, not 30. It’s not purely Class A, they seem to have fibbed a bit. Presumably, it’s Class A for the first 30W. It’s far from "low powered". The phono stage is ... | |
| Best used integrated for under $5000 By all accounts, Luxman’s new L-509X is also great. Probably not available used at your price for a bit, though. https://www.stereophile.com/content/luxman-l-509x-integrated-amplifier | |
| Best used integrated for under $5000 2nd the Luxman, other than I wouldn’t describe mine as "warm". L-590AX. There's certainly nothing muddled about it. Great on vocals, percussion, lot of detail, to me. |