Personal amp evolution

Oh wow...
Packard Bell tubed stereo (60's)
Pioneer reciever (early 70's)
Tanberg reciever (still running! mid 70's)
Audible Illusions mini-mite pre and power Kit (1980?)
Various SS amps: Amber,PSAudio, Threshold,Phase Linear,Carver etc(80's)
Van Alstine hybrid,Sonographe (early 90's)
Atma-sphere, Spectral, Bryston SST, Spectron (now)
Present iteration is Levinson CD, feeding Spectral, Feeding 4BSST. By far the best balance of dynamics and tonal color I have ever heard. (No free lunch!)

since my last post on this subject i have,once again,changed amps..this time from the tenor 75 wi's to a goldmund mimesis 29m.this amp does everything the tenors did,and does it as well, but drives my piegas' much more efficiently and effortlessly.i also changed preamps to an audio tekne 'simona' tubed piece which gives a great combo sound.this time,i think,i am keeping this amp 'for a long time'.

I'm finally off the upgrade train with a Boulder 2060 stereo amp. The sound is absolutely fantastic. Rich, detailed , layered, it's all ther.

David Shapiro

Yeah, right, David. ;-)

What about the Boulder monos? Maybe there's one more stop on the upgrade train still to come! ;-)

Updating my evolution, I've replaced my Jadis amps with Lamm ML1s, though the JA80s are still on the floor in my listening room, in part because I have a hernia and can't lift them and in part because I really can't bear to sell them.