Personal amp evolution


Seeing the over night success of the speaker evolution thread, it may be interesting to see what type of amp(s) we have all run. Same deal as the other thread-we will sort of create a puzzle of our systems you'll have to visit multiple threads to put everything together!!! ;)
For me I started:
Adcom GFA-565 monoblocks
Rotel RB-990bx
Jeff Rowland Design Group Model 5
Balanced Audio Technology(BAT) VK-60

either a CAT JL2, BAT VK-75se or Tenor 75Wp on the horizon.
tireguy
This list gets long-starting in about 1977
Pioneer-SX636
Pioneer-SX450
Technics-SA616
Pioneer-VSX5000
Sansui-Q800
Adcom-535
Pioneer-SPEC2
VTL ST50
Dynaco ST70 3ea with active xover to tri amped home builts
NAD 2200 NAD 1700 front end
Dynaco ST410 2ea for subs
Grommes LJ-5 mono in the shop
Pioneer integrated
Sony
NAD
Sansui - I still like their clean DC sound
I use as 2 ch. Home Theatre with radio shack
lineum tweeter (pretty pleasant + transparent)
Do we need 6 speakers?
Marantz 2270 20 years old Receiver - nice warm sound
Quad 405II - nice liquid tube like mid
Old tube amps - getting into tubes
1975 - Rotel RA712
1985 - Audiolab 8000A
1990 - Audiolab 8000P (bi-amped with 8000A)
2000 - TAG Mclaren 125M monoblocs (bi-amped with 8000P)
2002 - Lumley Reference M120 monoblocs

it took me 27 years to discover tubes. Better late than never.
1967...Dyna st-70 made from kit in grade 10 electronics class,still use today in kitchen.
1969...Dyna mk-3 monos from kit also.
1972...Quad 2 monos
1975...Phase Linear 700b,ampzilla,Kenwood lo7m's....Blew them all up trying to boogie with the Dayton Wright XG-10 electrostatics!
1976...Audio Reasearch d-76,Macintosh 275.
1982..Grant Lumley m-100's prototypes[still in family]
1985...Audio Research D-79b[ foolishly shipped to Japan
last year]Lumley gl-50[another beauty that got away] 1990...MFA 120b's
2000...Atma-sphere 2.2 mk2's,
2001...Antique Soundlab 1009 monos,Antique SoundLab 1006 monos.
Back in my college days I ran a disc jockey company and used mainly high powered solid scrape stuff from bryston,crown,and phase linear.
Here is an update on my amps! See below.......

Sansusi 800
Sansusi 8 (Still working in my cousins system)
MacIntoch CS 32 (pre-amp)
Mac 2205 Power amp
Mac 5100 (in another system I had)
Phase Linier 400 (power)
GAS Ampzilla ll (amp)
Therdra (pre)
Levinson ML-1 (pre)
ARC SP 6/SP 6A/ SP 6B (all great pre amps)
Conrad Johnson MV 75 (2) (power)
Conrad Johnson PV-5 (pre)
ARC SP 8 (pre)
Bryston (power)
ARC D 115 (power)
ARC SP 9 (pre)
ARC LS 25 (line)
ARC PH 3 SE (phone)
ARC VT 100 ll (power)

Replacing the Perreaux 2150B is the Perreaux 3150B AND replacing the ARC VT100 mkll is the ASL Hurricanes.