Pre/Power Amp pairing recommendation

The Butler TDB-2250 for sale on A'gon would seem to be a worthy candidate - massively powerful tube goodness (250 watts/ch.) mated to MOSFET "balls". Research (and then buy) this amp ($1800) and then find a suitable pre and you will have a world-class system...

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstran&1306268389&/Butler-TDB-2250-tube-hybrid

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Musical Fidelity A308cr power amp delivering 72 amp peak-to-peak current @ 250 watt/ch.

Musical Fidelity A308 or A300 preamp.

Haydn bass will surprise you with the larger amps.

I recently purchased a pair of Haydn Grands at a ridiculous price, too - with out the stands, though. I'm using a 60w/ch, Threshold T-100 class A power amp, with more than excellent results, especially in the bass department. Haydn Grands likes lots of good clean power to sound its best. 60w/ch doesn't seem like much, but it's all about the size of the power supply in the amp. The power supply in the T-100 has 128K micro farads of filter capacitance, which is over kill. So, high current, rather than a high wattage amp with low current for these little 4ohm speakers would be preferred, IMO. Although, you can have both as well, as in Lapierre's case. I also have a T-200, class A amp with 100w/ch, but the T-100 does just as great a job.

An interesting fact, the Butler Monad A-100 monoblock amps have 1 Farad (that's 1 Million microFarads!!!) capacitance. Now THAT is overkill!

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