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
Nakamichi reciever (50w/50w)
Adcom 545II (100w/100w)
Jolida 302 (40w/40w)
Linn Majik (33w/33w)
Linn LK 100 (60w/60w)
Linn Klout ( 80w/80w my favorite by far)
Pass Labs Aleph 30 (30w/30w)
fisher
dynaco st 70
carver 1.0
citation
b&k st-140
mccormack dna 0.5
SMC Revision A (on the dna)
SMC Revision Platinum + Carbon/siltech (on the dna)
06-24-04: Strabo
Yammaha RXV-750 75wpc - Used for 10 years
Denon 4802 125wpc? - Returned after 30 days for refund
Sonic Frontiers PVA-5 125wpc - Still used for center and surround duty in HT
Lexicon NT-512 140wpc - Great amp, but still not what I was looking for. Need to sell soon.
AES-25 Superamp DJH 35wpc push pull. - Now we are getting somewhere.

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A year later:
Sold the Lexicon.
Sold the Superamp.

Picked up a VAC PA100/100 and am very happy after trying a few different tubes.
1 Aiwa receiver...back when I was a student..an all Aiwa set up: hey I was poor
2. NAD integrated...driving Alison speakers
3. Aragon power amp: pre-amp/DAC was TACT
4. Chged power amp to TACT for all digital set up
5. Something missing...chged amps to Linn Klimaxx solo monoblocks
6. Chged pre-amp to DCC2 as purchased the Meitner set up
Primary amplification began with:

Radio Shack 80watt Receiver. Nice unit with seperate AM and FM tuners.

Sansui BA-3000 and BA-2000 to bi-amp Dahlquist Q-10 system.

Tandberg 2080 Receiver to replace Sansui stack. It did too!

Two Aragon 8002's, one just for the woofers in my Dahlquist DQ-20i's. These are really good amp's and somewhat overshadowed by their 8008 BB big brothers. Two of these are stonger yet more refined than the big horses. IMO

In secondary systems I have 4 Denon DRA-775 stereo receivers spread around the house and garage areas. Fairly good units for todays environment.