Personal amp evolution

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.

07-25-04: Matrix
TECHNICS RECEIVER
HK AVR 25 II GOOD RECEIVER
KENWOOD RECEIVER JUNK
ADCOM GFA-5800
PS AUDIO
MUSE MONO BLOCKS DRY SOUNDING
THRESHOLD S/150 (POSSIBLY THE BEST SOUNDING SOLID STATE-I WISH I KEPT IT...)
THRESHOLD S/300
ROGUE 120 MONO'S LIVED WITH FOR ABOUT A MONTH, DECIDED TO MUCH MONEY and not exactly what I wanted.
CODA 10.5 VERY GOOD AND CLOSE TO THE S/150 WITH A LITTLE MORE POWER AND THE NEWER "ESOTERIC LOOK"...
ODYSSEY STRATOS VERY HAPPY WITH FOR THE PRICE, 10.5 WAS A LITTLE BETTER, but odyssey wins.
CARY 70B SIGNATURE TRUE TUBES 65 WATT PER CHANNEL
Now for the Big mistake I went back to Surround Sound, New Denon Avr 3805, with SACD and all the bells and whistles, complete 7 channel system, it was satisfying for about 2 months and then I found I was missing a lot....
Back to 2 channel all the stuff is gone and could not be happier,
Current amplifiers
Odyssey Extreme Mono blocks' Excellent