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Originally Posted by two dot
As good as the Luxman 590 A II Class "A" SS amp is, I was missing the tube magic.
I found a perfect, like new Luxman SQ-38 EL-34 based integrated for sale not too far away. I contacted the owner (great guy) and made a deal.
This is such a high quality piece of retro looking, smooth sounding gear I just love it. Packed with useful features. The headphone amp is supposed to be amazing.
It has ALL of the EL-34 sound that I have always loved.
For you visual types...
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Lovely looking amps!
We do not get much exposure to Luxman at where I live. Wish we had.
My first introduction to EL-34 was about 10yrs back, then it got me infected to tubes. The next that I tried and once owned was 300B, 2A3 and KT120 tubes. All except EL-34, were used to drive my Harbeth 7ES3 and SHL5.
I am back to SS though ... But once I can have a 2nd set up, that will be a tube setup for sure :-)
Share some pictures with you too... I love the blue glow on 300B :-)
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