Valve amps

[telecat]

bigbadbikercats said:

clonmult said:

telecat said:

Esoteric Audio Research and Audio Note are the ones I'd look at though. Good Designs and on reputation very well built.

A friend many years back had a home built amp based on the Audio Note Ongaku design, I think he'd used the same, or at least very similar components.

And the sound through his Rogers speakers (LS4, my memory is fuzzy - they were once the BBC monitors?) was absolutely sublime. Possibly one of the best sounding systems I've ever experienced. Much better than another friends system - he gets some of the latest/greatest kit practically given to him (he reviews for Hi Fi News), and it still doesn't come up to that beautiful old valve kit.

A pair of nicely fettled Quad IIs, that's what you want...

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JG

Quite a few "Fettlers" out there. They were never the "best" Valve amps in original form but the "fettled" ones are an improvement.

[nevpugh308]

loadblower said:

The fender Blues junior is pretty cool, 12" speaker, 15w, EL84 power section. Sweet sounds

Seconded ... got one, love it to bits

Edited to add : so much so I bought its big brother for gigging, Fender Twin

Edited by nevpugh308 on Friday 25th April 20:07

[bga]

Laney VC15-110 is a very nice valva amp for not a huge amount of money. 2 channels & sounds lovely to me.