I have the power-amp version of the A21a (the classic one that everyone rates), and I’ve had it for maybe 11 or 12 years. Wouldn’t ever consider selling it. Seems to be a thing that folks hang onto Sudgen amps. It just has a magic, and I’ve never heard anything I prefer. I did also have the A21a integrated, and was using them both with 4 SD Acoustics speakers in a Hafler configuration. Had a purge though, and let the integrated go, but only because I knew I still had the A21ap. Now I run my Dac straight into it, as the Jolida has a volume control.
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That’s the one, but mine also has the mm / mc phono board
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My system is much simplified since I dinged my phono stage and broke the switch, needs re-soldering which is too fiddly for me. Another disaster was that my efforts at building a final destination OB in the new house failed dismally.
My current system ignores these failures and does I think make a passable effort, although I would like to try a subwoofer with it. It comprises of an iPod plus Pure iPod dock, Audiosector DAC which goes dreckly into a Deware Zen Triode type amp built by Graeme VB and on loan from him. Speakers are a TL affair fitted with Jordan drivers they were picked up after a long drive from a Chinese fish and chip shop in Diss in 2008.
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I’m guessing the DAC isn’t CE certified; thank goodness for Brexit releasing us from such bureaucracy!
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My Techy 1210. Bought in 1990 and still in use now.
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Blimey Andy - some sweeping changes since you were in swampy Oxon! 
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Sometimes Less Is More. 
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Much of my old bits are still in the attic or spare room, 4 sets of large speakers, several amps and a few pairs of tweeters- I’m very poor at getting rid of stuff. Maybe I will get the building bug again but currently that seems a way off and Vinyl seems a faff to far ATM.
I have been spending much of my time lately faffing around in the garden. There have been projects aplenty there to keep me happy.
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Sounds healthy to me mate - hifi can wait for the cold & rainy days of winter
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Classe 10 monoblocs
Audible Illusions l2b line stage
Teac VRDS10SE into a Denafrips Terminator
Gyorbe with a Moerch UP4 and a ZYX Airy 3 into a pair of Hashimoto 7 SUTs into a Trigon Advance SE phonostage
Uprgaded Treeongles similar to Malbecs above I think.
Loads and loads of lovely foo.
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All these Triangles are making me pine for my old Naïas…
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Remember first hearing your old system at Scalford, twas’ nice.
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Was that the one on the bonkers Beard amp that looked like a Frankenstein lab prop
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We had a family gathering in a large AirBnB a couple of years ago, and in the living room was a large pair of Triangle speakers on the end of a Naim system. First time I’d really heard either, properly. I definitely came away thinking they were a brand of speaker I could happily live with. Always tempted when I see a pair on eBay.
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I’m on my second pair, and I love them, would love to have a space and set up that I could justify putting something from the Magellan range in.
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Mine were a £350 bargain. They’ve been around the houses a bit. I think they were once James’s.
Those Classe’ s were £350 each too. Rather old but good.
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Hope they are, as the have lightly-upgraded x-overs - nothing foo, but nice.
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I should never have sold that system 
Wouldn’t actually sound better than what I have now, but it had a certain magic at times that I’ve never heard with anything else…
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Just plugged the ai 300 back in.
This amp should have sold by the bucket load in the mid 80s.
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