Tír Na HiFi

Perhaps the Bryson power amp with a nice preamp might be worth a go? I suppose the beauty of a pre / power set up is that it allows flexibility wrt box swapping. WRT class A, the extra running costs, one has to remember that Class A amps generally run at 30 watts or less. So although they run ineffi...

Interesting write up there, certainly have done the rounds!! But did you try a Primare???? Hahahaha...

Perhaps a McIntosh 252 might float the boat?

TBH if you’re keeping the speakers then you are really looking for a certain synergy between the amp & speakers.

Celer........ The everything and the Nothing.

Ambient drone......... a most delightful album indeed.

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I spoke to Ivan recently, he mentioned a new speaker called the Magnepan LRS, which for approx 1200e is giving box speakers a very serious run for their money.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/ma ... dspeaker-0

Sugden have a long long pedigree and take considerable pride in their products. The A21SE has much bigger heat sinks than the A21 Signature (24 watts), so yes it will run hot, but not as hot as it's heat sinks are vertical and bigger. Whilst bigger electricity bills may be in the post, heating bills...

I believe the Copland CSA 100 is worth checking out.

Put that on your watchlist!

I was checking out some whiskey / whisky recently and I see the "whisky exchange" and "masters of malt" have suspended shipments to the E.U. due to the level of uncertainty with customs. Hard to believe a bottle of Scotch is finding it hard to gain entry. I'm currently awaiting s...

I've heard very good reports about the Arcam rPhono...... I'm not sure if it is still in production / available? But it got very good reviews and Cloney's were selling them at one stage. In addition it was not crazy money. Other phono stages to consider might be Musical fidelity, Project Audio etc. ...

500 quid........ is a fair bit of money I suppose. However I think it really comes down to "is the cart going to be used"? Either by you or somebody else? If it's not going to be used, just put in a drawer etc, then IMO there's no point. On the other hand if your going to get it into servi...

There’s a Primare A30.1 integrated in Cloney’s. I did have a 30.2 power amp recently, it did take a little while for it “grow” on me but it was (is) a very good amplifier. It had a slightly different sound, kinda clinical but allowed a Crystal transparency to the music too. At low volumes it raised ...