Considering the New Tekton Design Encores? AND Owners Group - Experiences/Questions

@cooThe Audio Mirrors @Sedond/Doug recommends are another high powered SET option as well. They're made in the USA at a very fair price. I've not heard them yet personally to offer any input on them delivering SET-like goosebumps and magic especially utilizing that russian 6c33c pentode being ran in triode mode. They are very beautiful amps though and definitely are a well thought out design considering their necessary protection system to prevent malfunctions if the tube decides to malfunction. 
I considered a similiar pair using that tube made by a one-off manufacturer in NJ. The amps were made in Vietnam, unbeknownst to me, and were very poorly made, even after a tech went through them and getting them working he just looked at me and told me to return them because they were of a poor design and were highly distorted way short of their rated power.  It was at this time I noticed the Audio Mirrors.  I reached out to the builder's Audiogon ad, but didn't hear back and around that time I discovered the Allnic A6000 Monoblocks and I decided to pounce on them.

If you go that route please chime in and let us know how you like them! 

Any thoughts or experience with Decware Amps?

@bourcier I've only oggled their website a few times.  I was drawn to the 25th Anniversary Super Zen Triode 6wpc monoblocks (how could you not want a pair after reading that marketing material, 😁), but I fear atleast15wpc might be really the minimum the Encores need to sound decent with enough low-end extension.

I never looked at his other offerings, but I kind of like the guy. He's very passionate about audio and it shows in his product information.

@bourcier - i had a very bad experience w/steve deckert a few years back.  at the time, i had some very efficient 97db/1w coincident victory's. steve assured me that one of his low power ~4wpc amps (i forget which model) would have no problem driving them - even tho his amp was 4 ohms, and the victory's were 14 ohms.  it seemed to me that his amp would only be making ~1.3w into a 14 ohm load.  

well, i was right; fortunately the amp i bought was used, and i was able to unload it w/o taking a bath; but it was a total waste of my time.  the amp wouldn't even get to normal listening levels when fully cranked, let alone loud.  and i had three other 4wpc amps to compare, that had no problem driving the speakers to louder than comfortable levels.  i can't say i trust deckert all that much...

ymmv,

doug s.