If there is anyone out there interested in a 40 watt tube amp, you NEED this amp!!!
Bill sent me one of these to evaluate. Well, it evaluated itself into a new home.
Because of this amp, I have now sold off my HT system. It just sounds so good in stereo, I have NO need for all those extra speakers.
I brought this amp over to Mike Galusha's this past weekend. In his system, powering the GedLee Abbeys it truly was fantastic. A change of output tubes did improve thins considerably. We did not have the treasures, but used a quad of Penta KT88s and some Mullard 12AX7.
As Bill has stated, this is one of the best sounding amps I have ever heard. I preferred the sound of it over that of Mike's Atma-sphere M-60s. To my ears, the Atma-spheres were a little to analytical while the EE M88 has a fuller, rich tone.
We did take a quick look at the amp on Mike's test bench. It easily exceeded most of the specs. It is a VERY wide band tube amp. I believe it was pretty much flat out to 50 kHz. Alex used some VERY good transformers.
It is a true integrated amp. It has an active pre-amp section that is equal to the power amp section. You can run a separate pre-amp into it, but why bother?
I really like this amp. I think you would too.