Personal amp evolution

Principal 2CH systems:

*1950s vintage Pilot tube mono receiver with RCA speaker (mid 60s)

*Kenwood receiver with Altec VOTT(early 70's)

*Technics receiver with ESS AMT1 (late 70's)

*Nakamichi Stasis receiver with Fried floorstanders(mid 80's)

*Bryston 4NRB with Magnapan 3.3R(early 90's)

*ARC VT130 with Wilson W3/P2(mid 90's)

*BAT VK75SE + Cary 2A3SE w/Merlin VSM (Y2K to present)

The modder's bug struck me around Y2K & has extended the life of my current amps for the foreseeable future...V-Caps almost deserve a category of their own.

NAD 302, Yamaha Reciever rxv1092, Krell kav400xi, Krell Evo600 monoblocks. I think I will keep the evo600s for a long, long, time. They are great.

Since I'm a manufacturer, I've stayed off this thread, but re-reading it- well, I am still an audiophile.

My first amplifier was a Knight Kit KA-95, which was a 35 wpc EL34-based integrated amp. From there I had a variety of Dyna St70s, MkIIIs, HK Citation 1 & 2 (all of which had to be repaired before I could use them). I also ran a Southwest Technical Products Tiger, which was a 100 watt/ch transistor amp, on the woofer section of my speakers (the mid/tweeter section used an EL-34-based Ampex amplifier). Ultimately began building my own amps from surplus chassis and the like in the mid- late 70s. Finally, I wanted my own chassis, drew a picture of it and got the sheet metal made up. That particular amp was a one-off, and it actually came through the shop for minor repair about a year ago. So its survived for 30 years.

These days I'm running a set of MA-1 MkIIIs.

NAD 4125
Densen Beat
CJ MV52
VAC Avatar
Cary Sixpacs
Quicksilver (6C33C) Triodes

I started with a hafler dh500,forte model 6, vtl 225 mono's;mccormack dna-1 monos and now cary slam 100's I also have a pair of odyssey mono extreme se's still in boxes.