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300B SET Tube Amp recommendations anyone??


Hello.

I am in the market for a used 300B "push-pull" SET monoblock amps and my budget is around $3000. I have short speaker cables and would like to keep them so single chassis stereo amp recommendations are not needed.

My Coincidents are 92db efficiency and would like at least 15 watts for each amp. I've been out of the amp loop for a while and would like to hear you top picks. I'm not a huge detail kind of guy, however, I do thrive on solid, tight bass and smooth mids. My music preferences are vocals, instrumental and rock (all vinyl).

Thanks for your recommendations.
dogpile
jburidan
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Dogpile:

Audiofeil is right. Common 300B SET output is 7-8 watts. I wouldn't advise driving 92dB full-range speakers with a 300B SET amp, because you're gonna' clip and destroy the drivers eventually.
metralla
945 posts
 
I wouldn't advise driving 92dB full-range speakers with a 300B SET amp, because you're gonna' clip and destroy the drivers eventually.
Depends on the size of the room and what volume you listen at. I have Coincident Super Eclipse IIs with Welborne Labs Laurels, WE 300B valves. I live in an apartment so don't play my music particularly loud.

6 years and counting.

Regards,
onemug
784 posts
 
Curiosity is getting the better of me and no criticism is meant BUT why would a thread be responded to 2 1/2 years after it died? I could see it if the original poster was giving an update, but 2 1/2 years?!
dpang233
31 posts
 
Canary CA303 I am using, it is 26 Watts output., 2 x 300B
that confused met with 1 x 300B singled-end would be
approx 12-13 watts. But I looked up it should be 8 watts.

Thanks for correcting me.
jburidan
803 posts
 
Metralla:

Here's some good info on clipping:
http://sound.westhost.com/clipping.htm

I try to avoid clipping. The efficiency of my Tannoy DC's is above 100dB; and I drive them with four 300B SET amps, bi-amping through a Marchand external crossover.

The OPT's and compression horn tweeters are so expensive that I hope never to fry them.
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