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

LEBEN CS-300X

An Atma Sphere MP-1 OTL will do you right. Ralph Karsten is the man with the circlotron patent, and very helpful as well. His pre and power amps are a cut above all else.5692 Red Bases are the tube to use.Two out of three of these tubes that you might find used sound bad. At $150. to $300. per tube,the price of admission is high. I bought two Mp-1's and use one for a bass circuit control amp.Now that's clean bass!

If you are over 60 or 65 years old maybe. Otherwise no. I had a Threshold T250? That I bought when I first started working. Best thing an the market at the time. I sold it 10 years ago for a Pass 350... Hugh improvement. If you can get twenty years you are doing well, after 10 yrs there is significant improvement. It is monumental by twenty.

This will do for now

+1for the carver cherry 180's! What I like so much about these is the ability to adjust the amps to different speakers and room conditions. Having the option to alter the bias and feed back on the fly gives the ability to have a lot of tube flavor or to near SS sounds based your listening preferences.