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Whats the deal with these antique sound labs av-8s

I've just heard about these antique sound labs av-8 monoblock amps, and apparently they sound fantastic. Would a pair of these+a good preamp sound good? What kind of pre-amp would go well with these amps? I Know they only push 8 watts each, but supposedly these 16watters combined can push nicely. Thanks for any info on these bad boys, I can't seem to find any info!
-Ben
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elevick
2,636 posts
 
My only beef with them is the 6BM8. If you want to "roll" tubes some, your choices are much leaner than el84/el34/kt66/6l6/kt88 and many more.
lshannon
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re: Sadly, there are longer in production . . .

I spoke with Divergent and they had made another run of them
due to demand. I bought four (4) directly from them and they shipped them right out. They did indicate that they did not plan to make another run after this one.

http://www.divertech.com/antiquesl.html
efort
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I bought a set of these and ran them with all MIT cables, and a McIntosh c41 preamp through B&W 604s3's and they sounded incredible! I disconnected my two McIntosh MC162's running mono and ran these instead "WOW" Mine have the auric caps and some 6bm8 chinese tubes that Kevin Deal recommened. I was amazed at what I got for the money, compared to the Mac gear. The Mac gear is great but I'm gonna try this for a while. Keith
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