Personal amp evolution

Primary amplification began with:

Radio Shack 80watt Receiver. Nice unit with seperate AM and FM tuners.

Sansui BA-3000 and BA-2000 to bi-amp Dahlquist Q-10 system.

Tandberg 2080 Receiver to replace Sansui stack. It did too!

Two Aragon 8002's, one just for the woofers in my Dahlquist DQ-20i's. These are really good amp's and somewhat overshadowed by their 8008 BB big brothers. Two of these are stonger yet more refined than the big horses. IMO

In secondary systems I have 4 Denon DRA-775 stereo receivers spread around the house and garage areas. Fairly good units for todays environment.

07-25-04: Matrix
TECHNICS RECEIVER
HK AVR 25 II GOOD RECEIVER
KENWOOD RECEIVER JUNK
ADCOM GFA-5800
PS AUDIO
MUSE MONO BLOCKS DRY SOUNDING
THRESHOLD S/150 (POSSIBLY THE BEST SOUNDING SOLID STATE-I WISH I KEPT IT...)
THRESHOLD S/300
ROGUE 120 MONO'S LIVED WITH FOR ABOUT A MONTH, DECIDED TO MUCH MONEY and not exactly what I wanted.
CODA 10.5 VERY GOOD AND CLOSE TO THE S/150 WITH A LITTLE MORE POWER AND THE NEWER "ESOTERIC LOOK"...
ODYSSEY STRATOS VERY HAPPY WITH FOR THE PRICE, 10.5 WAS A LITTLE BETTER, but odyssey wins.
CARY 70B SIGNATURE TRUE TUBES 65 WATT PER CHANNEL
Now for the Big mistake I went back to Surround Sound, New Denon Avr 3805, with SACD and all the bells and whistles, complete 7 channel system, it was satisfying for about 2 months and then I found I was missing a lot....
Back to 2 channel all the stuff is gone and could not be happier,
Current amplifiers
Odyssey Extreme Mono blocks' Excellent

Sima w-2002, and soon Moon I-3

I started this silly pastime in 1963
Grundig consol stereo (parents)
Dynaco 35 (kit)
McIntosh 275 (I should be hung for selling this for more power)
Phase Linear 1000
Carver 4000 (little switching power supply 400w/c terrible)
Crown DC300
PS Audio (200watt/channel) don't remember the model #
Krell KSA-200s
Krell FPB-300cx

I resurrected my Nikko, YES NIKKO, NR-1015 receiver and it only made me thirst for more power - BIGGER COWBELLS, EVEN! Now I am waiting on the delivery of the legendary Sansui G8000. I've had two contractors come in here and put R rods in the walls, point the foundation of the house and install flying buttresses to keep the walls from being flattened when I crank this puppy up.

Peter