What type of amps do you use? Tube? Solid State? Both? Hybrid?

[GSOphile]

Solid state

 

[Phishphan]

All solid. Bryston 28b3, 4b3, and a 9bsst2.


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[Ventura_Rodriguez_Vallejo]

Solid state in my secondary system (Cyrus II + PSX additional power supply).
Tube (Luxman CL 360 preamp + two bridged Mc MC 275 power amps for trebble and mids) and ss (LFAU active filter and low freq. stereo amp + PSX ad. power supply) for bass drivers.

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[XCop5089]

Tube preamp, although strictly speaking, my CJ GAT Series 2 could also be described as a hybrid design, utilising only a pair of 7DJ8 tubes in the gain stage.

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[XCop5089]

Solid state power amp!

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[joeinid]

Beautiful Steve, what speakers are you using? I don’t remember if you mentioned it. You definitely have a beautiful system.

 

[XCop5089]

Beautiful Steve, what speakers are you using? I don’t remember if you mentioned it. You definitely have a beautiful system.

Thanks Joe.

TAD CR-1 MKII speakers with REL Gibraltar sub.

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[joeinid]

Ah, that's right. I'm sorry I forgot. Stunning.

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[XCop5089]

You can't really see the REL sub in the picture above. It's on the right hand side of the room, in the corner behind the speaker.

The REL Gibraltar G2 has a 10" woven driver, not dissimilar to the TAD bass unit and 450 watts of Class AB (not digital) amplification in a sealed enclosure. I cross over at 38 Hz and keep the volume low at '10.'

I feel it integrates particularly well, underpinning the TAD's nicely in those missing frequencies below 32 Hz (the REL quotes it's range as extending down as far as 18 Hz) and adding a sense of scale to the soundstage.

fullsizeoutput_903 by Steve Coward, on Flickr

 

[Sean]

Sweet system, Xcop!


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[Howiebrou]

Tube Preamp
Tube Phono amp
Tube Power Amp

 

[still-one]

Tube Preamp
Tube Phono amp
Tube Power Amp

Howie
I thought you had gone back to Meridian again. You do change your set-up a bit.

 

[AlterEgo]

Vitus Class A for me.


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[greatoldone]

I have a NYAL Moscode 150. This uses four dual trodes (6CG7, 12AU7) in the front end - driving four MOSFet's per channel - 75 watts output. Designed by George Kaye in the 80's. Superb sounding amp! Tube amps on hand: ARC D75, Dyna ST70 mod, ST70 custom-built by Herb Ward, Heath W5 pair, Paoli/Dyna MkIII pair, Golden Tube SE40, Scott 233, 299, LK72, Stromberg Carlson 6L6 Mono pair, Sanei SA560 2A3 SE, Will Vincent 45 SE, Custom-built 12V6 PP, Harmon Kardon 500, Fisher Symphonic mono receiver, Custom-built Pilot 6L6 PP, Julius Futterman H3AA's and Harvard Music H3 ... plus a few more! As you can see, I have quite a collection of tube amps! And my collection of SS amps is equally large! Variety is the spice of life!

 

[Howiebrou]

Howie
I thought you had gone back to Meridian again. You do change your set-up a bit.

Hey Jim,

I still use Sooloos and have a pair of 5200se lying around but haven’t had a full meridian system since 2009, so there

Now i’m Using Kondo M1000 Mk2 Preamp, Kondo Kagura Monoblocks and Audio Research ref 2 phono

 

[Sharp 2160]

Tube preamp with solid state amplification.

 

[UltraFast69]

Solid State Amplification


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[Jozua]

Tube Preamp
Tube Power Amp

Solid state amps currently in storage

 

[Phishphan]

Tubes are too much to fuss with. Solid State


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[wolfrose]

No, everything normal set