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Originally Posted by Jesstaa
Yeah, I wouldn't mind building a 50/50 HiFi power amp with some KT90's or 100's, I'm getting fed up with the thin sound from all my solid state stereos, oh well, at least the stereo I have next to me is fairly decent
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I hear ya on the "thin sound." I have two, high end solid state amps (transistors, none of that IC shit). However, I like the sound of my little stereo EL84 amp. Man, my CD's sound so good through that. I have been thinking about getting an all tube amp like a Dynaco that uses two EL34's per side for about 35 watts per channel. However, it will make more power, but the THD goes up. Most HiFi amps are rated below one per cent THD. Even so, 35 watts of tube power sounds huge. I mean I don't even crank my EL84 amp up. The loudest I played it is around 3/4 of full volume. I picked that little amp up for $85 bucks. It needed a little work and I took care of that and put some modern inputs and outputs on it and an "On/Off" switch. It originally came out of a Wurlitzer organ. I changed the power filter caps out and the amp is almost dead quiet. I custom built some high efficiency speakers for it. What really makes it rock is when I use a powered sub with it. The sub goes up to 100Hz and the other two speakers take everything else. Man, it makes that 20 watt per channel amp sound frickin' huge.
Tube amps...you just got to love them.