and frustrating.
Youāre welcome to pop over to Sheffield and have a listen to the A30 (to give you an idea of a 30W valve amp) and a low powered valve amp with sensitive speakers. You can get more impact from sensitive speakers in many ways than low efficiency with high powered amps in my opinion. Ā£1000 would need some patience to get what you want on the secondhand market but a 30W valve amp with 94db speakers is a great starting point.
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Iām revisiting this to say that Iāve decided to sell all of my gear. I think that starting from scratch is a better bet than forcing things to work.
Is what I have, listed above, something that people here would be interested in, or would I be better off looking at the general selling platforms (ebay, etc)?
Put some prices up and you might get a bite.
Forgive me, I didnāt see this thread the first time round, but, unless Iām missing something, you list what you like about your current system, but donāt say what you donāt like about it and why you want to change to a valve amp!
Personally, I wouldnāt change your Arcam setup for a valve amplifier, especially not with a Ā£500 budget.
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I was going to say, selling all the Arcams would probably realise about Ā£300- 500, depending how the wind blows, if youāre thinking of adding that to your Ā£500 then you might be getting to an entry level valve integrated.
I am in a similar position, I have an 8R/8P set up, but just fancy something different, so am trying to save up for a nice valve integrated amp that would maybe be able to work as a Pre-amp when I can afford to upgrade to a valve pre-power arrangement.
Anyway, just be careful of throwing the baby out etc.
I would relate the price of entry to valve amplification to ss amplification the same as vinyl to CD.
Itās far more expensive to achieve good SQ with valves than transistors. Add in reliability and faff factor thenā¦
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If youāre pooling the money.