In Barn for Review

I imagine different people look at the above image, and the notion of tube rolling, in two basic ways—with joyous anticipation or dread.

Don’t judge a DAC by its cover.

You can find the Living Voice Auditorium R25A Loudspeakers
 on my list of Favorite Speakers, which can be seen as the R80 OBX’s little brothers.

The BorderPatrol S20EXD Parallel Single-Ended Amplifier offers 18 Class A Watts per channel from two pair of Western Electric 300Bs.

The Octave Audio V 70 is a Class A push-pull pentode integrated amplifier capable of outputing a specified 50 Watts of power into 4 Ohms.

Anyone who’s had a gander at my Favorite Speakers list will have seen the Qln Prestige Five on it about which i said, “Regardless of the accompanying amplification, they remained as resolving as music demanded, as seamless and transparent as I’ve heard from a multi-driver […]

I believe it was Siddhartha who first strove for all-in-one-ness.

Cue Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young—It’s been a long time comin’.

You may recall my enthusiasm for the Wattson Emerson Analog, a nicely priced and built little streaming DAC I reviewed back in November of last year. Well the Madison is Emerson’s big brother.

A pair of NOS GE 12SN7GTA dual triodes came with the review sample LTA Aero DAC because they sit in the Class-A ZOTL Output Stage and when installed peek out from the top plate, unashamed.

Fern & Roby ‘s Amp No. 2 looks the part.

Dual Mono, Zero Feedback, 2-Stage Valve-MOSFET Integrated Amplifier,  baby.

A tower of power.

A balanced discrete R-2R DAC. NOS or OS is your call with I2S as an option.

Audiovector was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1979 by Ole Klifoth. That’s the same year I graduated high school and judging by mirrors, that’s a long time ago.