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    Default FS / px / swap : LA Audio A30 el84 integrated amp

    A lovely thing - for those not averse to a bit of tasteful piano black and chrome & gold bling.

    LA Audio a small, Taiwanese valve amp company with an interesting range of offerings. From the website I deduce they are a family run concern with a genuine enthusiasm and concern for high quality.

    See here http://www.laaudio.com.tw/products_d...?id=34&lang=en

    Excellent condition and PWO.
    Auto-bias, so just swap away with different flavours of el84 to your heart's delight.

    Comes with el84 quads of Reflektor (cryo) and Reflektor (non cryo).
    And 2x ecc81 - TungSol Cryo, Telefunken and some others to play with.

    Sounds great, and really quite like a Leak Stereo 20 to my ears.
    220V.

    With provided valves, it cost me well over £500.
    I'm asking ....
    £400 posted UK. Or £380 collected from GL17.

    Always open to offers of px or swaps.



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    Swapsies or P/X of any interest?

    I'm happy to bring it along for a dem if you are within sensible driving distance of Sunny Gloucestershire.
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    nice little amp jerry. not seen these around much. did the cryo's help any?
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    Did the cryo-ed valves help?
    Well, they certainly sound different.

    Standard Reflektor are quite exuberant and a bit forward, whereas the cryoed ones are more relaxed and easy going.
    My immediate reaction was that the cryo treatment had turned them into Mullards!
    Horses for courses and whatever takes your fancy - but the difference in sound is quite marked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jandl100 View Post
    LA Audio a small, Taiwanese valve amp company with an interesting range of offerings. From the website I deduce they are a family run concern with a genuine enthusiasm and concern for high quality.
    LA Audio were a Danish amplifier company from the early 1990s. I still have their advertising brochures and a Made in Denmark P60 Gold power amp (2x 6550 per channel) that I bought in preference over some highly regarded amps back then, including I think the Audio Research Classic 30. At some point they appear to have been taken over and are now a Taiwanese company, which is rather unusual. The current owners have retained the styling, including font, although my P60 is fully enclosed. If the current amps are based on the original Danish designs then they should sound similarly open and detailed like good modern valve amps.
    Cheers, Jeff

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    Gosh!
    Thanks for that, Jeff, I had no idea of their origins.

    It's an excellent sounding amp, very reminiscent indeed of a Leak St20 (I've had two) - I just fancy a change.
    I'd not be heartbroken if it stayed!
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    An LA Gangsta Porno Blingy Machine for £400?

    I want it.

    But it will no worky wiv me speaks

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    Quote Originally Posted by User211 View Post
    An LA Gangsta Porno Blingy Machine for £400?

    I want it.

    But it will no worky wiv me speaks
    lol.. i want it too but wont work with my bank account ... come-on folks, this is a bargain.
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    Wot?
    Are you impugning the aesthetics of my lovely amp?
    It would go great with Marco's Gangsta Merc.

    A lovely quad of el84 - just what his Big Mutha Tannoys need.
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    How about my Claymore mk II ?

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