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Ouch..hilarious..Sorry..Not meaning to insinuate my system was cheap, at least not on my charity worker's pay.. But I love its modest mediocracy daily.But I actually bought a refurb Sophia Electric Baby for about half of list and placed with your little Pioneer speakers., cheapm dac WOWSA . SWEET and cheap.This amp is so quiet!
There's a Music Angel on ebay that looks identical for $198 shipped.
Affordable, well build, good transformer, I believe Raphealite Sinovt is the answer. I hope to get one soon.http://www.hifiwow.com/7-sinovt-tube-valve-amplifier-amp-diy-kit?p=2
Actually there's one for $500 and one for $700 on ebay. FYI...
Having bought Yaqin, Jolida, APPJ and Dared amps from Chinese merchants I'm not the least bit wary. Every one has been high quality and a top performer. If you buy anything on ebay and it's not as described you get your money back, plain and simple and no more jumping through hoops. I've been buying from the same Chinese ebay merchants for years and have zero complaints. Gray market scare tactics is a marketing tool used by North American drop shippers. Tube amp knock offs of what? They all come from China including the the MP.
"I bought MA XDSE YC-808MK KT88 From tubestein. It cought fire after 3 hours of using. reason: undervoltage filter capacitor. In the next 3 months I was in touch with tubestein to get at least a schematic for the amplifier. After sending 3 wrong schematics, I finally got it the right one. In the end the repair cost me another $100. Never again I will buy from tubestein beacuse I have bad experience in communication with him. Never again I will buy chinese amplifiers because it realy is a hazard in doing it. I end up building a SET with KT88. Just my $0.02."
"My story with the Chinese Yaqin MC-100b is that it sounded good for the 2 weeks it worked. One channel went out (after about 100 hrs use - 2 weeks). I finally popped the cover and well my dog could solder better... I think they are using lead free solder for some reason ta boot. Probably some lame attempt to keep the work place and workers safer.. just a guess. After all solder joints de-soldered and re-soldered, the Yaqin amp sounds ok and of course I had to get replacement tubes (extra $$) for the pre stages (6SN7 and 12AX7). So without any other money just tube replacements I was at close to $900 and the amp build quality is suspect at best. What I did was buy a variac (7.5 amp) and turned down the voltage to like 104V ac and turned up the bias (72 Mv) - finally after 6 months it sounds pretty good."
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/159686-any-pretty-good-bad-chinese-amps.html
I have a MP301 MK III and am playing with a stock TPA3110. The MP is better but the 3110 is closer than it really should be at the price. With mods it may be too close to call, different but equal.