Any opinion on the C-J Classic Sixty ? .....

[Rafale]

from the UK importer website

:: conrad-johnson CLASSIC SIXTY/SIXTY SE VALVE AMPLIFIER

After a fairly long and much more than fairly successful life, conrad-johnson's entry level valve power amplifier, the LP66S (and Series 2) has just been replaced with a, potentially, much more exciting and promising alternative. Knowing Bill Conrad's and Lew Johnson's immense business acumen, one should not be surprised to register certain, well proven and wisely adopted (for example, within the automotive industry) "common platform" methods of designing and producing their most recent products. In short: one chassis and one carefully designed printed circuit motherboard that can be populated with numerous variations on a basic theme; guided by the level of sonic performance and, at least equally so, final price of the product you would like it to carry.
CLASSIC SIXTY and CLASSIC SIXTY SE (for Special Edition, of course) are excellent sounding and suitably well-priced proof of the pudding. What we have here is a comfortable 60 Watts per channel of reliable tube amplifier power, combined with high quality parts and EL34 output valves (in the standard Sixty) and very best parts we are used to see CJD use (Vishay resistors, proprietary Teflon capacitors all over the place rather than just bypassing polypropylenes, superior input sockets and speaker terminals, better internal wiring, etc.) paired with new KT120 output tubes (in the Sixty SE). Just the right partners for the already highly acclaimed and established ET3 and ET3SE preamplifier…
UK pricing has been set at £3,700 inc VAT for the Classic Sixty and £4,700 inc VAT for the Classic Sixty SE. Availability: mid-September 2011.

[joeinid]

Thanks Philippe,

"paired with new KT120 output tubes (in the Sixty SE)"

I wonder how the KT120's compare to the EL34's, maybe not as sweet as the EL34's.

[Rafale]

Originally Posted by joeinid

Thanks Philippe,

"paired with new KT120 output tubes (in the Sixty SE)"

I wonder how the KT120's compare to the EL34's, maybe not as sweet as the EL34's.

KT 120......Yes it is very surprising
and we do not know what becomes LP125M...

[joeinid]

Originally Posted by Rafale

KT 120......Yes it is very surprising
and we do not know what becomes LP125M...

Oh how the plot thickens

[Rafale]

We are probably going to attend a revision of the range of CJ amplifiers and it begins through the bottom

[Puma Cat]

Yeah, CJ seems to turn over their product portfolio pretty quickly. The LP70/140/275 series didn't last very long. Glad i got mine when I did. Not that is all that important, but the LP66/LP125M are nowhere near as pretty as the LP70/140/275 with their arched vestibule look for the input tubes.

[Rafale]

Why is the commercial launch of Sixty reserved for a single American retailer ie Spearit sound ?

[Puma Cat]

Good question. Perhaps shoot an email to Spearit about that....

[Rafale]

spearit retails the Sixty at 3750 USD....but..wow.. there is an introductory at 3000 USD !!