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What made it an interesting product, aside from its unusually smooth sonics, was the fact that it was called a Class A (high-powered) unit. Its life span was extended for a few more years by New York Audio Labs. But a class act. So, it was said only a few units were left over for Iverson to sell to the general public. He engineered the unit’s power supply in a novel way—one too complex for me to discuss here (even if I did fully understand it). Cary CAD-805The poster child for single-ended triodes. Dynaco ST-70Sold as diy kits or factory-assembled, this very affordable, highly-tweakable, 35Wpc, EL34-based stereo tube amp from David Hafler is the best-selling audio component of all time with over 300,000 manufactured. Vintage Rotel RX152 Mk2 Stereo Receiver Amplifier With Phono Input Vintage Rotel RX152 Mk2 Stereo Receiver Amplifier. AKAI AA 150 Receiver. Vacuum Tube Stereo Preamplifier KIT 6DJ8/6922. For one thing, there are still many around, which speaks to how well-built they are. Shop from the world's largest selection and best deals for Vintage Amplifier. Mark Levinson ML-2 monoblocksThe little-known and underrated Hadley Laboratories 622C aside, this was the first solid-state amp I heard to put the transistor on an equal footing with the tube. Amplifiers. I also remember that it was one of the rare electronic components that even “measurements tell everything” reviewers admitted sounded better than others measuring equally well. Elk was apparently shut down by Fender for too much lookalike but for the most part only the cosmetics were Fenderish. Whatever, contemporary amplifier design is inconceivable without him. The answers, in all his own quotes, are below. Still in production today in its Mk IV version, this is an authentic classic. Maybe not. Condition is very good for its age and it presents super clean overall. This amplifier could. Share. GAS Ampzilla IIJim Bongiorno’s masterpiece and one of the first genuinely great solid-state amplifiers possessing not only killer bass, but also huge dynamics and a major boogie factor. Audio Research D-150THis huge stereo amplifier was, in its time, a breakthrough in tubed design, both in power output, and, in the more elusive aspects of reproducing a facsimile of a concert hall sound. Share. Well, there were a lot of amps back in the day when Japanese manufacturing was at the stage the Chinese market is at now. The future had arrived, or at least one version of the future. I could have chosen several other Pass designs that would be worthy of this list. BAlabo BP-1 Mk.IIThe Bridge Audio Laboratories BP-1 Mk.II hasn’t stood the test of time as others on this list have, but it’s surely worthy of inclusion by virtue of its sonic merits, which are singular in my experience. After that comes the Harman Kardon HK3380 receiver. For vintage restoration, Garry says that they work primarily on the 1960s vacuum tube gear and 1970s solid-state. Custom Cabinets. And the Carver A Series, designed by Jim Croft, had the all but unique feature of no output network, for flat response into any load at all. Yes. Amplifiers act as the translators between record and speakers. The ST-70 has too many descendants to list, including the early ARC amps and the late, great Luxman MB-3045. McIntosh 275 This is a legendary amplifier, and from a legendary company, whose commitment to quality of construction and design has never wavered, not even during its long dark night of solid-state electronics. Conrad-Johnson Premier FourIt may seem capricious to bypass earlier c-j products, including its classic 55W MV60 stereo unit (which ushered the phrase “palpable presence” into the audiophile vocabulary) and the higher-powered and more highly regarded Premier One, for this relatively little-known 100-watter introduced in 1983, but I’m a sucker for EL34-based amps and this one was, IMO, the best of all time—astonishing soundstaging and imaging and an overall realism of tone color and texture that has rarely been equaled in a pentode tube amplifier. After their 350 and 200 watts per channel, there was no going back to things like 25 watts—or there should not have been, anyway. CAMBRIDGE AUDIO A 500 Integrated $ 380.00. As we learned then, there were all sorts of Japanese makers in that era engaging in a veritable arms race for who could market the wildest designs resulting in one of the most intriguing and confusing chapters in all of vintage guitar history. Sansui SP2500 loudspeakers (4) Sony CDP-XE400 CD player (workhorse) Akai GX-4000D open reel tape deck Hitachi (Realistic) LAB 440 turntable. Preceded by the superior D75, D76, and D76A stereo amplifiers, this 150Wpc, 6550-based behemoth was the culmination of William Zane Johnson’s “first-generation” tube designs. £450.00. McIntosh MC3500While the MC2505 put the signature big blue meters in the market, many people consider this the greatest amplifier ever made. The 400 would go into Class AB if the sonic demands exceeded its capabilities (said to be a rarity). The triple-series, triple-parallel output stage was also groundbreaking. The very model of neutrality, low distortion, substantial power delivery, and “high definition” (in the midband, not in the lowest bass or topmost treble), it is still highly prized by aficionados and led to the development of ever higher-powered, lower-distortion, higher-resolution, fuller-range designs from ARC, such as the Reference 600 and the current Reference 610T. Phase Linear Carver the man and the company would produce better amplifiers later and more powerful ones, too, but the Phase Linear 700 and the more popular 400 were the amplifiers that put high power on the map. Huge meters on a massive chassis, high heat output from the 6550s, and the kind of power that made them the amplifier of choice for the then speaker of choice, the Magneplanar Timpani 1D. Mark Levinson ML2This John Curl designed amplifier established Mark Levinson, the man, as a driving force in the audiophile marketplace. Threshold 800ANelson Pass’ first power amplifier under the Threshold name (1975), the 800A signaled to the world that Pass was a designer of uncommon talent and original thinking. NAD 3020This unassuming little integrated amplifier brought true high-end sound to a mass-market price, and in the process, exposed a whole generation of music lovers to high-end audio. A 70W (40W in switchable triode mode) monoblock, it set the standard for liquidity and gorgeousness of timbre in its day—and to some diehards still does. Dynamics contrasts, those going from microsoft (not MSNBC) to very loud, are the defining characteristic of the real thing. The critical range of the midbass (say 40 to 80 Hertz) is where the fundamentals of music lie, and this is exactly the region in which other tubed designs sounded either bloated and bloomy, or anemic and antiseptic. PIONEER A 400. It spoke with a kind of dynamic truth that was undeniable. Fully restored. So when you heard the Premier One play music, you believed it. This was the first production amplifier to use handmade silver electronic components (transformers, caps, and wire). Bob Carver’s 700 paved the way for the modern era of high-powered amplifiers, both tubed and solid-state. EAR Yoshino 509The major innovation is Tim de Paravicini’s balanced bridge mode output stage, in which the plate, screen grid, and cathode are assigned their own separate windings on a bifilar wound output transformer. The Two was a 60-watt mono tube amplifier that came out in the days of high-fidelity (as opposed to high-end) sound. Quad 303Nice as Quad’s tube designs were, Peter Walker’s real breakthrough was the 303. Audio Research Reference 610TIn the late 1960s, William Zane Johnson, began building and selling modified (Dynaco) ST-70s. The 70, and its descendants the Mk2 and 3 versions—came along just as stereo sound was being born. Japanese had excellent and very expensive hi-end equipment, that was not exported to the Western countries, and was almost unknown. The use of shifting bias allowed the unit to stay in Class A as the demands on its power output shifted. I used my 400 with great satisfaction for nearly five years on Dahlquist DQ‑10s. Published on March 6, 2018. Mark Levinson ML-2Before Lexus and corporate branding, before Kim Cattrall, there was Mark Levinson, the man—an original who pioneered a second wave of high-status boutique amplifiers like the ML-2 that defied corporate culture. Sharp ST-31-SM31 Tuner & Amplifier $ 180.00. About which there was some controversy, particularly from other designers, who thought Pass had pulled a sleight of hand. ... Teac RV-30 Stereo Integrated Receiver Japanese Vintage Phono Input . In 1988, Hiroyasu Kondo’s, minuscule-powered, 27Wpc SET integrated amplifier set the mark for luxury pricing of audio components. Shop with confidence on eBay! You can argue about the virtues of solid-state bass and treble vis-à-vis tube bass and treble, but what you can’t argue about is the overall realism of this amp’s sound. Quad 303Not the first transistor amplifier, but arguably the first to show that transistor amplifiers could sound as good as, or indeed better than, tube amplifiers. An acknowledged classic from its debut in 1975, the D150 set the standard for high-power tube amplification in the 1970s and long after. Dynaco ST-70Insanely popular, the David Hafler designed 35Wpc was introduced in 1959 yet kept on truckin’ for about 30 years. I quite like that some japanese audio companies had the nerve to produce amplifiers based on the technology of the past. NAD-3020 IntegratedBorn in the late 1970s, it was the little integrated amp that could. BTW, I have the very first pair ever made in for audition! 0 bids. Carver Sunfire, Lightstar, and A Series Carver the man and the company, separate by that time, shared the remarkable power-supply technology that gave these compact and not very heavy amplifiers enormous power. The polar opposite of the grainy, piercing, high-in-odd-order-harmonics sound that many of us then associated with solid-state designs, the ML-2 proved that the transistor could make music as readily as it could generate power. Vintage Amplifiers. If you do not see what you are looking for please contact us. We always have an interesting selection of vintage integrated amplifiers, preamplifiers and power amplifiers for sale. Vintage Sound Amps, Inc. is the first amplifier company ever endorsed by world renowned session guitarist Brent Mason. Later on, Iverson simply disappeared, after one or more runs in with the law, or, perhaps, to his alternate business base in Singapore. That is why my best equipment is vintage mint Japanese. Reviewed in this issue, the TBP-Zeros—which forgo the use of those banes of transitor amps, the emitter resistor—are simply the highest resolution, highest transparency-to-sources audio components I’ve yet auditioned, tube or solid-state. Audio Research D150The ARC D150 represented a turning point in tubed amplifier design at its 1975 introduction. Mark LevinsonI have no experience with Levinson products, but surely a list like this must include one—the 25 watt Class A ML2 perhaps? The DH-200 made a high-end powerhouse amplifier affordable to many. Levinson help to raise the bar on resolution and power and cost and led the way for dozens of wannabes. It was designed by the man whose 550 pure-pentode design was the breakthrough and the basis for today’s best tubed designs. First Listen: Goldmund PH3.8 NEXTGEN Phonostage, Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2019: Loudspeakers, 2019 Editors’ Choice Awards: Loudspeakers $1,500 - $3,000, 2019 Editors’ Choice Awards: Turntables $400-$4,000, 2019 Editors' Choice Awards: Loudspeakers $100,000 and up, 2018 Editors' Choice Awards: Disc Players $2,000 - $10,000. Its many latterday descendants include the marvelous and still-very-much-with-us Air Tight ATM-3. By keeping it clean and minimalist, blessing it with a sweet midrange and dynamics out of proportion to its modest power, NAD kept buyers coming back for more. Though it has recently been replaced by the ML-2.2, which judging by its showing at this year’s CES is even better, the ML-2 was for more than a decade not just the best SET but the best low-powered amp on the market. I remember a journalist of the french magazine L'Audiophile, Jean Hiraga, who lived during his youth in Japan and sometimes wrote about it in French magazines. At its best and in the areas in which it excelled, it gave new weight to the word “transparency.” (The ML-2 was created before Mark Levinson and its designer, Tom Colangelo, were absorbed into the innards of the Harman-Kardon octopus. Maybe he simply fed himself into his force-field speaker.). There seems to be a problem completing the request at present. It’s still a reference for many collectors when recapped (including me). And they still are. It comprises a perfect setting for the McIntosh Unity-Coupled output stage. Conrad-Johnson Premier OneThis was the first high-powered tube amplifier designed by Lewis Johnson and it had a quality I had not encountered in a tubed unit before: authority. Pioneering? Free postage. (Legend: It could make solid-objects disappear into a nowhere dimension.) Vintage Turntables, Vintage Speakers, and much more for sale. Stereo Amplifiers, Pre-amps and Integrated amps: Vintage stereo control power amp / preamps & amplifiers, integrated amplifier / amp for sale that have been completely serviced / refurbished / restored with a warranty; by B&K AV2500 5-channel power amp, Dynaco, Fisher Studio Standard CA, Hafler, Kenwood Basic C, KA KC, KM, NHT SA-3 subwoofer power amp, Onkyo A, Pioneer SA, SAE Mark, … The amplifier was, to me, an astonishment in the form of sound.) Said to be the world’s first servo-controlled power amplifier. The D150 proved that transparency, resolution, and low coloration were not the exclusive province of solid-state amplifiers. Perhaps the most prominent at the moment is the highly praised Van Alstine Ultrawave recently reviewed by Dick Olsher. Once upon a time, Sansui was a mere transformer manufacturer. 1930's Calborn Amplifier . McIntosh MC275 Using an implementation of Mac’s original unity-coupled circuit, the MC275 set new standards for low distortion. Leak TL12+ mono valve amplifier . Many of those $6,000 amplifiers from the mid 80s that are only $1,200 today represent some of the best bargains going. The reasons for its popularity are obvious: This was (and still is) a simply lovely-sounding amp—sweet, bloomy, forgiving, and relatively neutral and transparent for its day (though it didn’t do the frequency extremes like today’s tube designs do). No. It had the build-quality of a McIntosh and established the phrase “SET midrange magic.” The CAD-805 has been in production since 1992. Auction Alerts. 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