Personal amp evolution

Way back machine takes me to a pair of Phase Linear 400's driving 4 EPI mini-towers. Next stop was a pair of ESS transmission lines with RTR electrosatic tweeters bi-amped with ARC amps. Then onto Magnaplanar tympani 3a with the same ARC amps. Next was a combo with Arc D79 and SP10 pre. Then CJ power amps and pre,with 2 APT HOLMAN amps Dahlquist x-over driving custom subs with 3 10woofers in ea. Essence amp driving Essence 30 spkrs with same sub set up. Essence again driving Dunlavy SCIV's with Krell KSA150 on same sub set up. Harmonic Precision 75 watt driving Dunlavy scIV's and 2 Paradigm Servo 15's. And finally Harmonic Precision mono blocs are now my amps of choice...Tom

Fisher S-100 (?)
Sherwood receiver (early SS aaaargh)
Crown d-150
Gas Son of Ampzilla
QUAD 405
Bryston 2B
Adcom 5400
Bedini 25
Llano s-100
Accuphase ?
Pass Aleph V
Wolcott 220M latest production
thus my first and last (hopefully) amp will be tubes

I'm basically a conservative when it comes to this audiophile stuff - I don't like to spend much, change gear very often, consume a lot of power, or occupy a lot of space. I want to be able to play loudly, but not loud enough to cause audible sympathetic vibration in my listening enviroment. I do not aspire to ever own the "best there is". My concise (so far) amp evolution has been thus: NAD 2200, to Classe Seventy, to Conrad-Johnson MV-55, over a fifteen year period! (And I've kept the same Technics SL1200 turntable/arm over all that time!) Each move, FWIW, was up in price, down in power, and going from SS to tubes - not to mention better in sound. There will be another change soon, probably within the next year, as I am going to be moving to a bigger listening room. It will also be the result of my having slowly but steadily upgraded sources and cabling in the meantime. I am thinking about staying with tubes in the power amp, but with more watts, extension, and transparency, and maybe going back to SS in the pre, or at least in the phono pre. But who knows, the time might be right to give SS another try at the power postition.

20 years ago: Toshiba Aurex separates (kids still use them), then receiver HK, then McIntosh 105...

Lately, AV as in subject...

Technics receiver (YUCK!)
NAD 314
Jolida 302
CJ CAV 50
Innersound ESL...i thought i was tube guy, but the Innersound changed that!