I back up Waltersalas on the LM-508.
Its a hell of an amp.
Im from Argentina and I bought my LM508 from china directly because there's no Line Magnetic dealer here.
Of course if you do that you wont get the support from USA dealers, but the chinese one aint bad at all.
Everything I bought from that dealer went smooth and fine. He is an authorized dealer from Line Magnetic and a very proffesional one.
Them I upgraded the tubes, the power cord and the fuse and WOW!!!
Its just incredible... TONS of dinamics, detail, smooth SET sound, deep and wide soundstage and a bass you can feel inside of you... AMAZING.
Just to mention, Ive heard an EL34 Prima Luna tube amp (I dont remember the model but it cost about 3500 bucks un the USA) and I was kind of dissapointed. At that time I had an EL34 chinese Yaqin tube amp and I dont think IMHO that the Prima Luna was better.
The LM-508 is in a VERY different league, trust me.
From China, with all the upgrades I mentioned above, it costed me about 3700 bucks.
I hope it helps.
Its a hell of an amp.
Im from Argentina and I bought my LM508 from china directly because there's no Line Magnetic dealer here.
Of course if you do that you wont get the support from USA dealers, but the chinese one aint bad at all.
Everything I bought from that dealer went smooth and fine. He is an authorized dealer from Line Magnetic and a very proffesional one.
Them I upgraded the tubes, the power cord and the fuse and WOW!!!
Its just incredible... TONS of dinamics, detail, smooth SET sound, deep and wide soundstage and a bass you can feel inside of you... AMAZING.
Just to mention, Ive heard an EL34 Prima Luna tube amp (I dont remember the model but it cost about 3500 bucks un the USA) and I was kind of dissapointed. At that time I had an EL34 chinese Yaqin tube amp and I dont think IMHO that the Prima Luna was better.
The LM-508 is in a VERY different league, trust me.
From China, with all the upgrades I mentioned above, it costed me about 3700 bucks.
I hope it helps.