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In Reply to: You can nominate low-priced gear for coverage in my column in Stereophile! posted by John Marks on June 21, 2003 at 08:54:34:
Okay I always wanted to write that.Seriously, your magazine covers plenty of low cost products. You guys reviewed my dirt cheap B&W DM 302s, you review NAD, Cambridge Audio - all three companies are excellent budget lines.
So I guess what I would add is the cheaper Tube amp manufacturers like Antique Sound Labs or Jolida or Passion. The simple reason is that I bet there are a LOT of people who are on low budget who would love to get into the tube world but simply cannot spend the moon on Cary. Sure these companies MAY not be as good, but ASL has been around for more than 10 years, they appear to get good as well as mixed reviews. Their AQ1003DT and MG 15SI DT are both under a grand both well built, both give the buyer a taste of tubes, both surprising quiet.
I'm not sure if you have reviewed Audio Refinement...but I myself would like you to only cause it again seems to be a SLIGHTLY scaled down YBA Integre...Some say it's better than the YBA Integre (non DT version) and not much worse than the DT. At under 1k if those two things are true, then I'd argue it a steal.
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Follow Ups
- Dear John - RGA 12:18:00 06/21/03 (2)
- Re: Dear John - Robert Deutsch 20:18:54 06/21/03 (0)
- <Sob> OK, I will try some cheap tubes. - John Marks 12:59:27 06/21/03 (0)
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