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Personal amp evolution

Seeing the over night success of the speaker evolution thread, it may be interesting to see what type of amp(s) we have all run. Same deal as the other thread-we will sort of create a puzzle of our systems you'll have to visit multiple threads to put everything together!!! ;)
For me I started:
Adcom GFA-565 monoblocks
Rotel RB-990bx
Jeff Rowland Design Group Model 5
Balanced Audio Technology(BAT) VK-60

either a CAT JL2, BAT VK-75se or Tenor 75Wp on the horizon.
tireguy
whitesandbluewater
18 posts
 
I started out with a very poopy amp. cant remember what is was. Then i bought a carver. Remember when they used to use switching power supplies. It was somewhat poopy. From their i bought a marantz 5 channel power amp. This was my venture into 5 channel. Like the Carver it was somewhat poopy. But not as poopy as the Carver. Now, back to my senses, i bought a two channel amp. This being Blue Circle, and it isnt poopy at all.
essoteric
20 posts
 
I owned the Tenor 75 for about a year. I did a head to head with the CAT JL2. The CAT is in a different leaque. In my opinion it's the best amp in the world. I own the Verity Audio Parsifal. Maybe the results will be different with another speaker. I did do the comparison with a Talon Khorus as well and once again the CAT was head and shoulders above the Tenor.
tobias
1,534 posts
 
Dynakit SCA-35 integrated ( age 16 )
--theft, uninsured--
HK Citation Twelve, kit
d-i-v-o-r-c-e
HK503 integrated
Sima PW3000 integrated
Linn Majik integrated
Sima Celeste W-4070
Shanling SP-80 ( age 53 )

Full circle, tubes to tubes.
sdatch
204 posts
 
I started out with a Kenwood Receiver, then upgraded to a Rega Brio integrated. From there I moved on to a Conrad Johnson CAV-50 (which I still regret giving up), and finally to separates with a Krell KAV-250a. I also spawned a second system along the line somewhere which evolved from a Parasound Halo A23 to a Belles 150A(<--best value I have owned).
nickatkins
82 posts
 
Years in the wilderness of "mid-fi" and an early and brief entry into HT was followed by:

Creek 5350 SS integrated (couldn't afford the SE at the time)
Marsh a400s SS power amp (significant step up in my system)
Granite 861 tube monos (glorious, sweet and detailed without being revealing, keeps getting better)

I keep telling myself a Berning ZH-270 will be in my future or if I should win the lottery, a pair of Joule Electras.
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