What's the greatest bargain in SET these days?

Joining the DHT SET amp world next week with a unique 845 amplifier designed by Larry Moore of UltraFi. His Monaco 845 design. The 845 tube is not pushed to its max and thus the amp put outs 10 watts, not the typical 20-28 watts per channel. DHT 45 tube drives the DHT 845. The amp is massive weighting in at just over 80 pounds or so.

Five separate power supplies! Yes, I said 5! I'll report back next week on the sound & synergy.

Correction. 6sn7 feeding 46 feeding 845. The power tranny weights 35 pounds by itself! The design brings the very best qualities out of these 845 tubes by running them at their sweet spot tonally.

Grannyring,
That sounds like a very intriguing and interesting amplifier. I have a question for you, is your speaker efficient enough for a 10 W amplifier to display its beauty or does your speaker require more power? Bill, I am very interested to read your impressions on this amplifier speaker combination. My gut feeling is that this amplifier with this type of circuit and power supply attention should sound marvelous if the speaker load is compatible and benign.
Charles,

My current speakers are rated 90-92db and do not drop below 6 ohms. My prior Coincident Total Victory III speakers were 12 ohm and 95db effecient. Ok, all that is on paper, but my newer speakers seem easier to drive than the prior Coincident speakers.

Remember, I do not listen to loud music. Most of the time I am under 80db on average. My speakers sound great at moderate volumes. I also sit less than 8 feet from the front plane of the speakers with the speakers pointed right at my ears...substantial toe-in.

I will let you know how the combo works out. My expectations are high as the amp is said to play much louder than its rated power.

I currently use a PP tube amp in triode mode putting out about 20-25 watts per channel and I have never come close to using all that power. My main amps are 300 watt SS monoblocks. I will trade between them and one tube amp. So this new SET amp will go up against my highly modified pair of PP tube amps for second position. I like to have both my reference SS amps and a good tube amp. I just love the sound of tubes sometimes. This is especially true for female vocal and jazz.

Thanks Bill,
I look forward to reading about your listening experiences with these different amplifiers. My average listening levels are 75-80db C weighted. So I realize my amplifier is only providing 1/10 to 1/4 of a watt. Most likely I'm using less then one watt of power probably 90 to 95% of the time I listen to music. I sit about ten feet from my speakers. Bill, on paper your new amp looks quite special and should sound exceptionally natural and realistic.
Charles,