soonewewen

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Living in Japan. Any opinions on amplifiers?
If you are open to pre-owned equipment, hifido.co.jp might have some interesting amps. I have bought some vintage speaker parts from them for shipping overseas and the service has always been  good.ed. 
SET amps
I got Ken Uesugi to build me a 2a3 / 45 and am amazed by the transparency. Using old rca 45s were musical n trying out expensive EML mesh globes took the amp to a very high level. Very happy with his work! 
Streaming
Many years ago, I began with taking the headphone output of my mac and playing internet radio. Next I discovered that i could connect a toslink from the mac headphone output (as macs in the older days had toslink built in as well) and connected it... 
Otomon Labs. Soundgate Japan
I just received Ken's 45/2a3 amp. I am using it for my compression driver horns from 800Hz up.  I was using a 'quite famous' UK brand 300b amp.   On replacing the 300b with the 45 Otomon amp, the improvements were immediate (after 30 mins warm up)...