Dearly departed Music Reference RM9

As has been said above, there is an RM-9 Mk.2 on Audiogon right now at an asking price of $2600. If you don't need the RM-9's 125w/ch, Music Reference has a real nice 35w/ch amp, the RM-10 Mk.2. Also the 100w/ch RM-200 Mk.2, with a bipolar input stage and tube driver and output stages.

Its bad timing for me, I'm hoping that I don't gave to spend much more than $2,000.00. I've been very satisfied with my system for many years, and dont really know whats out there. Audiotroy, I have considered a solid state amp., the dyns are power hungry.   Like you said, the Jadis is quite full in the mids- bugle boys worked well for me. Back when I followed audio gear, Krell and Levenson were putting out highly rated amps. Any ideas on a musical solid state amp at this price range, used? 

fearsnears,

You might want to check out class-D offerings from the likes of NuPrime, Merrill Audio, or Wyred 4 Sound. Class-D generally gives you more watts per dollar. 

I recently purchased a NuPrime IDA-16 200 watt dac/amp integrated and have been extremely pleased with it.

Good luck on your search.

Cheers,

Scott

Hi Scott, yes I will be looking into class D amps. I see theres a recent thread here in them. Thanks again, Robert

I'm also an owner or an RM9.  I'm curious, when you say it's 'beyond repair', what happened!?  Depending on the extant of the necessary repairs, my 1st step if my RM9 were to fail would be to call Roger Modjeski at Ram Labs to find out about getting it repaired!