Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ?

I've tried very hard to find an amp that would let me sell my CAT JL2, SS, many tube amps, and unfortunately I have not found anything close to the CATs (many amps that sounded wonderful in their own right, and easy amps to live with). This is unfortuante since the run hot as hell, consume a lot of power, are expensive to retube, and weigh 180lbs - all things I hate, but the sound in my system with the CATs is incomparable (it has always been clearly superior, not a hairsplitting difference), so getting rid of it is just very unlikely to happen.

AS long as I have the room for them....Krell FPB650M.

There are no amplifiers for life. There is though, people not very opened to changes on they're systems :-). Once they start listening to different pieces of equipment, they will realize that High end is like a fine wine, there is always a better one ...

My Nagra VPA's hopefully.

For me it is easily the VAC Phi 300.1. An amazing amplifier.