Temple Audio Bantam Gold integrated amplifier in black – £90.
Amplifiers
Mjolnir Audio Electrostatic (Stax) Headphone Amplifier – £1099
Superb Mjolnir Audio Electrostatic (Stax) Valve Headphone Amplifier
These use four 6S4A valves and four ECC83 valves. There are four RCA and four JJ valves in this amp. The serial number is 002 as not many were made and they are now very rare!
This has a great valve sound and better than a standard Stax amplifier sound.
80W power amp, based on NAIM – 400 Euros.
Hand built, 80 w per channel into 8 Ohms. Darlington circuit, all analogue with power surge and speaker protection. Based on Naim.
Transcription Audio mono-blocks. £950
Mono-block tri-wired battery powered power amplifiers with a pair of tri-wired B&W DM2 series 2 loudspeakers to match the amps included.
MDF casework.
3 x 50W channels per amp.
Include battery charger power transformers.
Silver ribbon signal cabling in ptfe,
Audio Note silver sockets.
Mundorf input capacitors.
Tektron TK2A350S REF power amplifier. £2000
Ex-dem with 10 hours of use.
Fascinating power amp with adjustable heater voltage allowing use of different output triodes – 45, 2a3, 300B, VT 50 &52.
Can use UX245, UX345, KR 242 and type 46 with adaptors.
Currently has Electro Harmonix 300B Golds.
JAN 5Z3 rectifier.
Retails for £3750 + VAT.
Yuan-Jing TPA3116 Class D Amplifier Board 50W+50W – £70
The best off the shelf TPA3116 amplifier.
Genuine Texas Instruments chipset
Built into a compact box.
Will supply with 19V DC power supply. (Needs 12-24V DC)
Surprisingly good sound. E.g. outperforms Temple Audio Bantam Gold – i.e. more open sound and better tonality than TABG.
Transcription Audio 211 Low Profile – £3500
Beautiful 211 integrated 18w/ch minimum.
Ex-dem. latest spec. in solid American walnut
3 inputs.
Transformers below deck.
7kg output transformers.
DC heaters on driver stage.
Choke regulated.
Cryo valves.
Massive power supply 2kV oil capacitor.
Takes on £30K 211 amps with ease.
45 kg – over-specced components run cooler and quieter than competitors.
Originally a Croft Red Shift OTL – £1100
When the almost extinct carbon anode 6080 valves needed replacing Glenn modified it to take carbon anode 6336 valves doubling the power to 20w. This entailed a re-build with extra transformers and Rhopoint non-inductive resistors in key positions. The lid was cut to aid cooling.
