I plan on building myself a tube amp. I was going to copy a Jolida design but it was suggested I try to find something better.
I have plenty of experience wiring, but not so much in tube design.
What I am looking for:
Preferably an integrated amp with a preamp section.
A decent amount of power to drive my Paradigms (est 89~90) until I build a more efficient set of speakers.
Alot of the music I listen to has low bass so I am looking for a design with clear, tight bass.
No exotic parts. I want to be able to find easily find any tubes or transformers, etc for the initial build of if I need replacements.
Modern circuits like CCS.
The reason I dont want a kit is because eventually I would probably want to upgrade parts like capacitors and would rather just build it with the right parts the first time around.
I would also like an amp that sounds great both at low and high volumes. From what I read it sounds like toroidal opt's are good for that, but they seem to be very expensive. Would it be worth it to go that route?
Budget: I would like to keep it $700 or less, but will pay a little more if it will undoubtebly give much better sound quality.
Thanks for all the help.
I have plenty of experience wiring, but not so much in tube design.
What I am looking for:
Preferably an integrated amp with a preamp section.
A decent amount of power to drive my Paradigms (est 89~90) until I build a more efficient set of speakers.
Alot of the music I listen to has low bass so I am looking for a design with clear, tight bass.
No exotic parts. I want to be able to find easily find any tubes or transformers, etc for the initial build of if I need replacements.
Modern circuits like CCS.
The reason I dont want a kit is because eventually I would probably want to upgrade parts like capacitors and would rather just build it with the right parts the first time around.
I would also like an amp that sounds great both at low and high volumes. From what I read it sounds like toroidal opt's are good for that, but they seem to be very expensive. Would it be worth it to go that route?
Budget: I would like to keep it $700 or less, but will pay a little more if it will undoubtebly give much better sound quality.
Thanks for all the help.