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| integrated SET amp for $1000 You can pick up the Almarro 318B for around $1300-1400.00 used and its a superb SET integrated. I honestly don't know of anything that would come close to it for anywhere near that price. | |
| My Final Choices For New Amp - Need Your Help Elevick, thank you for your thoughts. Based on all of the comments, at one time, I was actually remotely considering one of the old Threshold's, but was worried about them being 20-25 years old, and what updating them and performing maintenance wo... | |
| My Final Choices For New Amp - Need Your Help Acresverde, I understand your fondness for the M60's. Wonderful amps, but even Ralph from Atma-Sphere acknowledged that my room is too small for them in a previous thread here. An old friend of mine also owns them, and his room is significantly la... | |
| Which integrated Amp, Almarro,Cayin,Red Wine? I owned the Cary SLI-80 for a number of years. I've listened a fair bit, to the Red Wine, and currently own the Almarro 318b. I admire many of their products, and the Cary is a nice piece, and offers more watts, as previously noted. I was happy wi... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? Anyone Familiar with Consonance Cyber 800 SE amplifiers? I've just read some very impressive reviews, and some are available at my price point. | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? After some further research, I seem to find myself back at square one. As noted in previous posts, I had more or less made up my mind to go with one of the rare pairs of the longer style Atma-Sphere M60's when they appeared used on Audiogon(or els... | |
| Solid State Power Amps That Sound Most Like Tubes? He owns a Meridian G02 preamp. And after spending a lot of time with his, I was so impressed that I purchased one at a great price just a week ago on Audiogon. Great flexibility, very musical, and a just bit of warmth, while balancing details, bas... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? The more that I think about it, and given a great deal of input from audio aficianados here, and elsewhere, my speakers would almost certainly be driven better by 60wpc than 30. Which means the M60 MKII.3 are clearly my best option. And, having gi... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? Ralph, is the S-30 equal in sound quality to the M60's? I read something a while back that stated that, other than the wattage differences, all Atmasphere power amplifiers had the same sound quality. Just wondering as I wait for either the M60's M... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? I'm now leaning towards an Atma-Sphere S-30 as perhaps my best choice. However, this choice may be problematic. What finally sold me was a lot of additional research and uncovering something I had never known, and which is very unique. According t... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? Thanks to everyone for all of your thoughts thus far. Al said "I could not find an impedance curve for the 17.5's, but if you or someone else could locate and provide a link to one I think it would definitely help to focus the recommendations you ... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? My Subject title was somehow lost when I posted my last reply. Sorry. | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? I am a very great admirer of your wonderful products, and my first choice was to go with a used pair of M-60's, or even an S-30, my budget simply would not also support one of your preamps.I then originally purcased the Meridian, since it was bala... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? Michae,My speakers are the Silverline 17.5. This is a nearfield system in a small room. | |
| Best Balanced Tube Amp To Pair With Meridian G02? Rrog,Combined pre and amplifier costs were in the $6-7k range of the two systems I heard. Also, several people reported wonderful results with good solid state preamps and Cary power amps. |