A 9 watts SET for the Maggies, Heavenly marriage

The reason why I mentioned XA is because Robert wants the sound of SET, XA is much better candidate than X-150.

About the power, I'm not sure since my Dunlavy is more sensitive and XA-160 can do very good job. OTOH, XA sould be not be worse than the rest of SETs he mentioned. BTW, XA .5 version probably are better for difficult load.

Hello, everyone,
Thanks for the response and yes, I understood the Pass Labs XA.
But, are they SET, Single end Triode?
Please advice
By the way, how does the X150 compare with the XA?
I believe it is the bottom of the food chain, right?

Not sure on your price range,but as suggested in another thread. You may want to take a look at the KR Audio amplifiers. If some these amplifiers can drive Acoustats. They'll have no problems driving your maggies. Here's a review of them doing that very thing Kronzilla.

Robert, since you like the kit 1, you may want to look at the Audionote Kit 2.

Although only rated at 12wpc, it is significantly more capable than any 300B I have heard, and IMHO somically better in some respects. It seems to have the edge in dynamics and bass and treble response.

It is not a SET, as it is wired in pentode (or tetrode), but it is single ended.

Regards
Paul

I have owned the AudioNote Meishu 300B integrated but it was a real pain having to service it every now and again - transformers failing, it even went up in smoke one time! Yes, its got a very sweet midrange but unless you are prepared to spend time and money cradling it, your best off with SS. The YBA Passion has some tube-like qualities and is above all, a very musical amplifier. Much cheaper to run the YBA in the long run!