Class D for a Tube Lover


First, I'm sure this has been asked many times but searching the subject wasn't too helpful to me.

So apologies in advance.

I enjoy tubed electronics and class A amps, which tend to be a bit warm.  My current Cary 805s warm my small (12x16) music room even in the cool/cold of winter.  I've got other amps that don't produce much heat, but am looking for something that produces no heat.  Living in a home with no central AC the room gets uncomfortably hot during the summer months.

So...I'd like to try some Class D amps.  Stereo or mono is just fine.  And my speakers aren't difficult to drive so I don't need a thousand watts.  But if that thousand watt amp sounds great, I'm not adverse to that, either.

I'd like to keep the price under 2k used.  

Please help.

Thanks.


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I have Nuforce Reference 9 V3 SE mono amps w/ TDSS level 3 upgrades.  The Ref 9's I bought used for $1400 for the pair about 5 years ago.  Liked them so much I had TDSS do it's upgrades which made very good amps a into super amps and more stable.  They have bettered very expensive amps in every system I've compared them to at friends houses or at a dealers.  Obviously the standard Ref 9's are well within your budget and if you wanted to at a later time, you could go the route I did.

Bob
Look into the XTONEBOX Silver 6011.  Made in Spain, small operation.  I just got one.  Lots of mid detail.  Pretty good for $800 IMO.  Tube pre-stage.  60wpc I believe into 4 ohm?  Small footprint with decent Bluetooth and phono stage.
Ralph Karsten is the owner and designer of Atmosphere OTL tube amplifiers as well as a frequent poster on this site.  
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