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I'm feeling better this morning!
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New power amp!
Sitting above the excellent Chord ... Beauty and the Beast (but which one is which?!) and in fact currently running from the Chord's pre-out sockets, although I do have an Eva2 passive LDR pre-amp on order that I plan to use with it.
A Croft Series 5 Mk2S power amp. I just couldn't resist when it came along on eBay!
A very open and fast sound with somewhat brighter tonality than the warmed up Chord. Very articulate and musically communicative (is that a word? ) and it's 25wpc are well able to drive my Infinity speakers.
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Ah, NOW you're talking
A lovely little giant-killer amp that one, with an "updated" bright-n-breezy Quad II kind of sound I thought. The Series IV was beefier but slightly rounded in tone by comparison.
Can you hang on to this one please? Get a 25 basic preamp for it
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"Bright & breezy" - yup, that's it!
I used to have a Croft 4SA, in fact it was my very first valve amp many years ago! And yes, I remember it as somewhat warm-toned and a little forgiving - certainly more so that the Series 5mk2.
Hang on to it? What a strange idea.
But, yes, I do plan to - perhaps a Croft pre would be nice, but I am addicted to the insidious benefits of volume remote control!
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Nah, you've got to be a masochist and deal with TWO MANUAL volume controls
You'll get a decent phono stage too...
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I always hated my Croft SIP's two volume controls.