Keith G wrote:
"Rob" wrote in message
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Andy Evans wrote:
We had an amp shootout in the London Audiocircle tonight and had a
chance to hear 5 chinese amps.

A pair of Bez T3B 300b SETs sounded the best of the lot, and by some
margin.

Two 845 amps were admired for their top to bottom "authority". I
thought they were a bit bland compared to the life in the 300b amp.

A Push Pull EL34 amp with feedback was very forgettable. On the other
hand a KT88 amp with feedback switched off was not bad at all, though
inferior to the 845s and of course the 300b.

The Bez amps did have some good 300bs fitted, plus some nice 6J5gt
variants (including the 2C22).

This all made me very curious about what others have found in Chinese
amp shootouts. Keith, for example, must have a rank order of the best
by now!!

So - what's your experience of Chinese valve amps? Andy

Er, not much, except for Keith's installations, which always sounded
great to me. I am put off by the fettle factor though.

A guy has just been round to pick up some ebay winnings, and rates:

http://www.ys-audio.com/ys-audio_eng.htm

Another Chinese audio web site that seems to be hosted via a dial-up
connection.


Mebbe I'm easily impressed but some of that stuff looks very good to
me...???

Whatever - no one can deny the Chinese haven't brought *choice* to the
table....


All looks very fair and tidy to me, and he seems to take the transformer
issue seriously. I don't know how to assess these things at a distance
though, except by weight (and that's no way etc), look and the 'main'
valves. My valve of choice thus far is the KT88, but I'm itching to try
a 300B SET, with all the speaker upheaval that's likely to create.

Like your new bike BTW - looks the part, just keep it and you upright :-)

I came back from my hols (bus/tent round Greece) wanting a Transalp

http://www.reelclassics.com/Audio_Vi...sibledream.mp3

:-)

Rob