@Brotw - No we didn't use a tube pre, because I wanted to compare pure apples to oranges with SS versus tube.
Nonetheless, I think the Blackhawk would supply plenty of power for your room size. We barely even touched the full power of what the Blackhawk can do. The 20w Blackhawk (I'm told) might just hit up into the 100-150wpc of a SS amp in a high efficiency speaker. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept, but that's what I heard, as well: ear bleeding levels in a pretty large room.
Or call Raven up and inquire.
Otherwise, what David said, yes.
@Bullitt and @Vitop - The tube amps like the Blackhawk and ZOTL40 are self biasing, so there's no need to fiddle with that. Moreover, the tubes are said to at least give 50,000 hours, yet assuredly more, perhaps into the 100,000 range. That's 2,083 days, or 6 years if you played them straight through, at 50,000 hours.
But let's say that you only use them 2 hours a day: that's well over 20 years.
Do you want to live forever or something? :-)
Nonetheless, I think the Blackhawk would supply plenty of power for your room size. We barely even touched the full power of what the Blackhawk can do. The 20w Blackhawk (I'm told) might just hit up into the 100-150wpc of a SS amp in a high efficiency speaker. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept, but that's what I heard, as well: ear bleeding levels in a pretty large room.
Or call Raven up and inquire.
Otherwise, what David said, yes.
@Bullitt and @Vitop - The tube amps like the Blackhawk and ZOTL40 are self biasing, so there's no need to fiddle with that. Moreover, the tubes are said to at least give 50,000 hours, yet assuredly more, perhaps into the 100,000 range. That's 2,083 days, or 6 years if you played them straight through, at 50,000 hours.
But let's say that you only use them 2 hours a day: that's well over 20 years.
Do you want to live forever or something? :-)