Ah, but in parallel universe #10294+4-#1238 ref x172 you drop your Luxman amp on your foot and you die 2 weeks later from sepsis.

What happens when it's Friday night, there's no sound and you're trying to find the reason.

Fortunately Firebottle's recent work on my Accuphase monos seems to have saved the day from a possibly buggered Luxman power amp. Yet to properly confirm.

Sounding fantastic even though they came from 1975. Seriously contemporary amps aren't any better than this by much if at all. That said, these were top bollocks amps in their time but I reckon they still are now.

Definitely.

Change of flavour is always good, too.

I need to get the 211 monos out again for the treble and mid range and leave solid state on the bass. That's always fascinating.

Where's Jerry these days BTW if anyone knows?

Been playing with radioactive triodes in the Lampi i.e. thoriated tungsten filament ones.

VT-25 and VT-62. They glow much like 211s.

They do sound quite different to pretty much all the other triodes I own, some of which are shown above, and major on clarity, accuracy and resolution.

Interesting additions to the collection. The glow pic is VT-62 by Hytron. Watching those at night is a treat.

They should help break up the sound.

GIK panels can look good, it depends on the design you give them.

It's a long room you've got there, with plenty of space to build up reverberations which can be deleterious to the music.
I bet you've done some "hand clap tests" in there, so what's it sound like in your listening area? Could it do with some damping to reduce decay time etc?

There really isn't much echo. It's very solidly built. Floor is extremely solid.

It does sound good in there as it is. If you distance yourself much further away than you heard at my old place the speakers sound far less overwhelming.

That said the test mic doesn't lie and where you position yourself makes for changes in presentation. It's nice to have the flexibility/space to be able to do that.

Is it a better listening room overall than the last place? Yes.

Pop over some time when the weather is nice as I am right on the beach:)

Accuphase M-60 monos wired back in tonight.

Quite seriously they really are epic. From 1975 as they are they are still excellent in 2022. At least the equal and to be quite frank better I think after long term ownership of both than a much later produced Luxman M-800a.

They do get extremely hot driving Apogees so I am keeping the needles showing power delivery in peak mode below 300 Watts.

Otherwise seriously buy older originally very highly priced and excellently engineered hi-fi for the best bang per buck is my advice.

They are non-sellable items for me personally at anything below £8K-10K.

Really.

Then again I am not putting them up for sale;) And no one would think they were worth that anyway.

Smiles.

A Class A amp will run at maximum temperature and remain stable. If it is driving serious power into speakers, it will get slightly less hot as it is simply diverting some of the current running (wastefully) through the transistors into the speakers instead.