Who comes here more often knows that several dozen lamps in the budget from 3 to several dozen thousand zlotys have passed through my hands.
Generally, probably like me – you read reviews or reviewers about specific models, then you arrange an audition in the living room or at home, or you buy something … and is not playing.
The market is packed with Chinese food, various kinds of maples and inventions. EL lamps, KT150, 170, 300B, 2A3, 845, 211, GM70, Devils, Push Pulle, Single Endy. The choice is enormous, the prices are terrific, the best products are damn hard to choose from all this hype.
And which lamps / structures will play?
Which colloquially speaking above D. will not jump?
Which lamps will meet your expectations, and which designs are only fantasies with good sound?
What distinguishes Hi-end tube amplifiers?
Undoubtedly, the best thing that the world of lamps has to offer is triode-based structures. There, the music lover gets the most of what this game is about:
- refinement
- dynamics
- linearity
- minuteness
- emotions
- smack on the vocals, the sound of fingers torn off the strings
- and the feeling of being in music
For listening to music so-so – without all these goodies, you can buy a nice Bluetooth speaker today and you don’t need much more.
What is given above is only the single-ended triodes and the most outstanding and class transistors.
So we can think about Fezza, audio note, jadis, old Sansui,
