"Max Holubitsky" wrote in message
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George Mann" wrote in message


A good vintage tube receiver/integrate with a cheap cd player and
cheap, efficient speakers will readily outperform any solid state
system within your budget!

A good tube amplifier can sound excellent, but I couldn't disagree
more about the cheap speakers part.

Good point number one.

Not to mention that a vintage
receiver is unlikely to be working 100% properly, and the original
poster is trying to replace worn out equipment - why replace worn out
equipment with more worn out equipment?

Good point number two.

However, there is a third point, and that is that many relatively good
vintage tube receiver/integrated pieces were actually weak-sister
representatives of tube technology when they were new. It was no secret that
tubed receivers were very problematical because of heat and weight issues.
When you bought a tubed receiver you didn't get a Marantz-like power amp
with a tuner. You didn't even get a Dyna-like power amp with a tuner. You
got a down-sized tubes, lightened output and power transformers, and a
crowded chassis that exacerbated natural heat problems.

Good speakers are the key to
good sound! Personally I think that the amp should be bought to suit
the speakers, and not the other way around.

Since just about all speakers made in the last 30 years were designed to be
used with SS amplifiers...