"Andre Jute" wrote in message
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Andre Jute wrote:

Most posters on these two conferences are senior audiophiles; almost by
definition they have more than one amp, and sweet memories of perhaps
many more they have parted from. Here's a tough question:

Suppose you can take only one amp with you to a desert island, which
would it be? (To make it easy, we'll assume your record collection, a
source and speakers are waiting for you, and the island is plugged in
to the universal mains electricity.) Why would it be that particular
amp?

Try to keep it clean, fellows.

Andre Jute

Okay, I'll go first.

My favourite speakers in all the world are first series Quad
electrostats, retroactively known as ESL57. The best amp to drive them
is my own T113 Triple Threat, which is a trioded EL34 Class A push pull
amp which can be operated with zero negative feedback; it has a switch
for triode, ultralinear and pentode operation.



OK, that's better - if you can take speakers of your choice as well, then I
would take my newly-acquired Chinese 300B SET badged 'JA Audio' (actually
not badged at all, but that's what it was called on the eBay auction)
because with an 'all good' valve line-up (currently Mullard ECC81s, EH
6V6GTs and the excellent Shuguang 300B-98s from another Chinese amp) it is
proving to be a *killer combination* with the 'still new and raw' Jericho
horns I've just built.

The 'sound quality' is so *poised* and so *arresting* a pendulum clock would
stop to listen - see them both here, ignore the claptrap, just look at the
pix:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/jaau...aaudio300b.htm

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/fostexfe206e/fostex.htm

(I would need a dispensation though to allow me to possibly substitute my
2A3 SET when I've had a chance to check it again with the rapidly-evolving
Jerichos - it's been a few days since I heard them together....)