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Tubes with Tylers

Hello to all, I'm thinking of trying some tube amps and have Tyler Acoustics Ref III speakers and like to get some feedback on what tube amps have worked well with them. Budget is $2500 and will buy used. I'm looking at Rogue 120 monos, AES six pacs, Dodd monos etc, etc. I have heard good things about these three amps, any others I should be looking at? Thanks.
jsawhitlock
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loki1957
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Check out the Jadis JA 30s' on Audiogon for 3400.00. I've had a pair for 8 years and love them. I've done side by side compairisons to other tubed amps(VTL MB 450s were not even close to the sound or control of the JA 30s') and like the Jadis better. I know it's 900.00 over your budget but they are well worth it. Mine have been bullet proof and the are cheap to roll tubes with as the are only 4 power tubes.

How do you like the Tylers?
arkprof
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You'll get plenty of responses, but be sure to pose the same question to Ty, as he often, if not almost always, uses tubes with his speakers at CES and other shows
ajazi
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Jsawhitlock,

I don't know about the Ref III's, but I know that with the Tyler Signature's, tubes don't work very well unless you have tons of tube power. I tried some 70-watt class A mono's with the Sig's and it sucked. The speakers draw all kinds of power.

Used an old 200watt solid state amp with much better results but even that was being taxed by the Sig's.

Again, I don't know about the Ref III's, but I'm going to guess that all Tyler's would prefer a lot of solid state power over some tube power.
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