Quote Originally Posted by daveskis View Post
Mark
You are reading my mind, scary! But seriously thanks so much for your encouragement along the way.

I have an Audio Research Ref 2 Mk2 Pre amp on order, used of course. What are your thought on Class A Power amps that would possibly match this.....tubes probably.
On the vinyl side I have a Linn with Ittock Arm and Dynavector 20dXX Cartridge and the Phono Stage is a Linto.
Hi David, in all honesty I'm not the ideal person to recommend any valve amps as I have never owned one Plenty of others here who can do that though

Actually thinking about it I can recommend at least one valve amp Get yourself something like Marco's copper amp! Fantastic sound with power to spare, it'd blow you away...

However, as you appear to be keen on DIY you could always tackle the updated John Linsley Hood class A power amps if you put your mind to it (well I reckon you could at any rate). These are 30W RMS per channel monoblocks, with low open loop gain & thus low feedback - which makes them rather musical indeed...