Based on the reviews here I was so excited about this very cost-effective speaker/amp combo I mentally owned the equipment. I contacted the distributor and he sent contact info for a local customer with a complete OP/Wired 4 Sound setup. This audiophile also had a very nice $10 K + vinyl front-end and that is very important to me as this is my only source. I took several reference albums over as well as a few towels - for the mess I was anticipating. We played one album after another and I was shocked the system was only reproducing about fifty percent (at best) of the music. Overall, the sound was bright, thin, lifeless and left huge holes across the frequency spectrum. The end result was the antithesis of my warm, lush, detailed, dynamic and your are there all-tube/vinyl setup. Of course the equipment owner thought this system was the very best possible. I invited over to my place so he could at least obtain a sense of the missing frequencies. No surprise he didn't contact me.
My advice...if it seems too good to be true, make sure you thoroughly audition the equipment being considered.
