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Originally Posted by morls
Looks like a great setup
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Cheers, all being equal it should all arrive this week... looking forward to first hearing...
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Originally Posted by xelasnave
Congratulations Carlton from what I can see you will have a very nice system. Where will you put it..do you have a special room?
Alex
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Thanks Alex, I believe it should be good, yes... not necessarily bigger & better than what I have but, different.. & that was the aim of going down the valve amplification path...
It's setup in the spare room, alongside my bass rig... not a particularly large room hence, no desire for stupid amounts of power output...
My current setup is pictured below... the new amp will replace the one on the left which is in need of a thorough service & possibly some capacitor replacement... I will then put it away for my son so he has a nice starting point to a quality hifi setup when he moves out...
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Originally Posted by Astrophe
I can highly recommend the Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista Integrated amplifier, from the early 2000s. That's the Nu-Vista M3 integrated....there is a newer version out, the Nu-vista 800, currently priced around $18K, so that's a bit beyond your budget, although it's an excellent amp.
So the Nu-Vista M3 has a nu-vista valve pre-amp section linked to a solid state power amp...pumping out about 275 watts RMS., giving a very tube like sound with a good phono section thrown in.
Just be aware that it is a two box integrated....the amplifier proper (in one box) and an outboard power supply in a second box. A bit strange that an integrated amp should have two boxes, but that's the way they were built.
https://www.georgemeyer-av.com/wp-co...elity-M3_1.jpg |
I'd love to move from my Musical Fidelity A3 SS to a Musical Fidelity valve amp... I looked at their valve amps longingly when I purchased the A3 over twenty years ago... couldn't afford it then, can't now either...
The PrimaLuna's seem to have acquired a good reputation having been around now since 2003. Dutch/German design but, like most things these days, manufactured in China which.. keeps the cost to the purchaser down...
I'll update the thread once I've set it all up & had a good listen & then again, once the valves are nicely burnt in...
My next challenge is to replace my ageing Jensens with something that is easily driven by a modest valve amp...
There are a number of Australian made speakers I'm having a bit of a look at.. particularly these:
https://www.adelaidespeakers.com/valve.html