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Tube Amp Suggestion for under 600$ ?

post #1 of 17
11/27/10 at 2:38pm
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Hi Guys,

 

Hope this hasn't been covered recently, so please let me know if it has.

 

I am looking for a nice Tube amp for max. 600 Bucks, just to get a feel for tube amps.

 

Until now im using my Lake People G99 which is VERY linear and accurate sounding and i like it alot but i want to expirment with some more coloured sound. I am not a big Bass head and like smooth mids and clear highs.

Musical Prefrences are mainly Jazz, Classical, RnB, Lounge....

 

Headphones beeing used Are HD600s, SRH840s and DT880s....

 

I heard the HD600 and DT880 sound fantastic wiht tubes and that just got me really intrested :)

 

 

Greets,

 

cOSteLLo

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post #2 of 17
11/29/10 at 4:51pm
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'Guess tubes arent very popular these days...

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post #3 of 17
11/29/10 at 5:33pm

Woo 6 maybe?

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post #4 of 17
11/30/10 at 3:20am
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Looks pretty nice!

 

DO you have expirience with it?

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post #5 of 17
11/30/10 at 9:23pm

No.  Sadly not.  Though if you willing to ship me one I'll report back on what I think!biggrin.gif

 

With your 600s and 880s the Woo3 being OTL would also be a good match.

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post #6 of 17
12/6/10 at 7:48am
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What is an OTL

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post #7 of 17
12/6/10 at 10:37am

Just throwing it out there, but how about the Schiit Valhallas?

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post #8 of 17
3/3/11 at 2:43am

Bump

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post #9 of 17
3/5/11 at 9:29pm

MAD EAR + HD and it was designed using the HD600.

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post #10 of 17
3/5/11 at 11:01pm

If you are interested in a bit of DIY, the Bottlehead Crack sounds good. I built one with the Speedball upgrade last week and it sounds great.

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post #11 of 17
3/5/11 at 11:30pm
Ive heard good things about the elekit tu-882. You can get it as a kit with either all solder work done for around $445 where it takes maybe 10 mins to just screw together, or you can get it as a plan PCB and populate it yourself for $360 I believe. I've been reading a lot about them. Seems like amazing bang for the buck. Skylab gave it a great review, and its compact.too.
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post #12 of 17
3/16/11 at 3:57pm
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sweet, the elekit looks awesome, love the design. i want it so badly now :I

 

the woo6 seems to be grreart, but its kinda expensive and hard to find...

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post #13 of 17
3/17/11 at 7:39am

I have reviewed 12 tube amps in that price range:

 

http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/402585/review-summary-a-ranking-of-29-tube-and-tube-hybrid-headphone-amps

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post #14 of 17
3/24/11 at 4:49am
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thx for the link sky, i thought u might have done that, but head-fi is so big, that its hard to find stuff... so reading ur reviews, u really liked the elekit tu.882 as well, right?

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post #15 of 17
3/24/11 at 6:04am

Yep, the Elekit is a nice amp.

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