SOLD I purchased this amplifier from a fellow ACer (JRebman) and have not used it much b/c I listen almost exclusively to my headphone rig. I have lots of good feedback on Audiogon.com w/ the user name Bartster. The only thing wrong with this amp is that it has a small paint chip on the Nixie display. other than that it works flawlessly.
This sonically wonderful amp uses two 2a3s, 45s, or 2.5V 300Bs, two 6sn7 drivers, and a type 83 mercury vapor rectifier. There is manual bias adjust (pots are located just in front of power transformer and there are bias meters situated between the power transformer and the right channel output transformer.) This is an integrated amp with 3 inputs, an ultra cool nixie tube input selection display, a DACT attenuator, and the gorgeous, optional highly-figured olive wood base, and the standard eutectic copper top plate.
Tubes included: two Shugang 2A3C s, two Russian military 6H8C drivers, the original Italia Telecomm 83 rectifier.
Sound is beautiful, punchy, with excellent bass and detail retrieval, amazing soundstaging, and certainly lives up to the Reference designation Tektron gave it. Amp is a compact 12" wide by 9" deep, weighs about 25 pounds and runs quite cool for a tube amp. All iron is made in-house at tektron.
Original base price of this amp without tubes or the olive wood base is in the 5k range. I'm asking a very reasonable
$1500 (with tubes listed above included).
