Best small intro to tubes?

The little Dared products aren't a bad place to start .Small enough for a dresser.With a cool factor too them. Just need to stick with a high efficient speakers.
The Eastern Electric equipment is a few steps ahead in build quality and sound. This stuff is made to last for many years and sounds great!

I'll second the aa (Audio Aero Prima) suggestion. One tube in the preamp section and a mosfet amp. A nice little integrated. I paid $575 delivered for mine, no remote though. The newer ones, ie more expensive, do have a remote. Runs pretty cool too.

Check out the Sophia Baby,$900 or EL34,$1500 at Sophia Electric. They may offer a trial with a restocking fee. Mating amps and speakers is very important. See it as a whole. Good luck.

Lots of votes for Prima Luna and nothing but good reviews as far as I can see. I may be giving them a call shortly.

It'll be a weird setup. Probably using a pair of Wilson Watt 3's as speakers and an iPod (with lossless compression) as a front end at first. Not really an audiophile system but it'll beat the heck out of the wave radio that's in the bedroom now.

Anybody done something similar?