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

Currently own four different power amps, modified versions of the adcom 555II, hafler dh220, rotel 951mkII, and Will Vincent st-70. Have owned several carver amps, a mac integrated, auditioned a mc2200 and bryston 3b in my current system. When it comes to vocal reproduction and soundstage nothing to date beats the st-70 in my system. The moded 951mkII comes in second, nice soundstage with the vocals a notch or two behind the st-70. The moded 555II is a power house no doubt but is very two dimensional and weak in the vocals. Much to my amazement the mac 2200 and bryston 3b were the worst both brittle in the top end and flat in the bass! Before the mods the little 951mkII was not listenable imho, replaced the filter caps with nichicon ones and all circuit board caps with elna silmic II's. Big difference, stock caps were terrible. I'll keep the st-70 and 951MkII for some time but can't say the same for the others.

Keepers for life...Krell FPB 750mcx...classic brawn

My Audio Research 600 mk3 mods,cannot beat them,big and heavy and keeps room warm in winter

I'm keeping my Quick Silver V-4 mono blocks! I have them connected to a Quick Silver preamp , a Lynn Sondac twelve turntable with a Grado Platinum pickup, a Metromome Valved CD player, and Totem Manitou Speakers with custom 100 lbs. stands with Audioquest Midnight 8" leads and all Emerald Audioquest interconnects for the rest of the equipment. It sounds from very cool to great warmth and I interchange matched sets of EL-34's with similar matched sets of KT -88's, all of my tubes are either Tesla or RCA, depending on their function, to vary the sound according to my mood. All the stuffs old but it's gold!!!!!

krell 402e or any of the evolution series!