Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ?
Just wondering, with this audio merry-go-round of buying and selling, if anyone has an amp that will be a keeper for life. I haven't yet but came verrrry close once...
I will have to second the Burmester 911 MK3. Has all the virtues of tubes, and all the best virtues of SS, and all in a beautiful modern design. 2 thumbs way up!!
The problem with the question is that I don't know if I have heard an amplifier I would want to keep for life. There are so many great audiophile and professional amps out there and I have not heard near enough yet. I do know one thing, it will a Class A or A/B design. Most every amplifier named in this post is either a Class A or A/B design. I have not owned any of the new Class D to T amps that for me are even in the running so far. I've owned over 40 different amplifiers so far and the only ones I seem to keep are all Class A or A/B designs.
Short list: Pioneer Sony Tandberg Nakamichi Yamaha JBL Crown NAD Acurus Music Hall QSC Carver Audire Hafler BGW Digital Phase Audio Zone Tripath Bel Canto Audio Analogue Audio Flight Creek Atoll Aragon Quad Threshold Spectron Parasound AVI Monarchy Krell Bryston Unison Research StereoKnight
Very hard question...depend of your budget and your personal taste, otherwise we will have only ONE reference... In my personal experience in a midle-hight range cost of power amp. as Halcro, Gryphon, Vitus, I have no dubt: B O U L D E R !
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