Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ?

What does "life" mean?    You need a solid company to repair if needed...sound quality that will keep for 10 years or so


Ayre, Audio Research, Rowland, Pass Labs

Oh, I take the "for life" literally. I’ve had my Atma-Sphere MA-2 power amps for 15 years and I expect them to stay a part of my system for as long as I have an audio system at this level. Someday I may downsize and no longer have a dedicated listening room, then things may change. But the change at that time will likely be for one of the smaller amps Ralph builds, not a different manufacturer’s amps.

For me, Audio Note 'OTO', with High efficient speakers..

In regard to   pavpet post on 04-09-2015 .....

 

" " WYETECH labs 211 ok if you like non existent service ,plus build quality poor poor cheap $70 output transformers " "

 

This was not a production unit. It was a prototype built for test purposes. Peter was dishonest in not pointing this out and later tried to sell it for many times the price he paid for it, passing it off as a genuine production product.

 

AS FOR SERVICE ...

This unit had defective power transformers that were replaced by me in both monoblocks for free. These transformers had to be redesigned by my supplier and those new ones were the ones I replaced in his units. That's why there called prototypes, to iron out any bugs in the design.

 

Be careful trusting everything you read on forums and especially be wary of any product sale that seems too good to be true as in the case of Peter trying to sell these amps for three times what he paid for them and about half the price of the production units.

 

Best of luck in your audio adventures,

 

Roger Hebert - Owner of Wyetech Labs

Yes! I love the Atma Sphere amps! Had them many years! Ralph is always up to something good! goldenears