anyone into home stereo tube amplification?

[()smoke()]

i've been looking at some products from ideal innovations, as well as mcintosh, etc...

i'd like to begin to assemble a home system around a quality tube power amp--wondering if anyone has gone this route and might offer some insight

not sure i can currently afford enough power to drive a home theater system this way, but eventually that's what i want

i'm considering starting off with a smaller power amp as a table-top system that i can feed turntable as well as ipod, etc.

[v-12]

i've had a few small class A amps, and i loved them. iirc they were 6wpc and sounded great through some klipsch cornwalls.
i've heard about people using mesa's strategy 400 power amps for home stereo, a poor man's mesa baron.
i've also toyed with hooking up my rivera tbr-5 to my home theatre, its rated @ 160/45 or 70/20 depending on pentode/triode and high or low, so it would have more than enough power for a stereo set-up. they were used quite a bit in theatres originally; there is one nos on rivera's website for $1k.

[()smoke()]

cool info, man--thanks for the suggestions, i was wondering if there were any way to use something like the power amps you mention for the more demanding stuff than a tabletop radio--i'll look into this route as well

Originally Posted by v-12

i've had a few small class A amps, and i loved them. iirc they were 6wpc and sounded great through some klipsch cornwalls.
i've heard about people using mesa's strategy 400 power amps for home stereo, a poor man's mesa baron.
i've also toyed with hooking up my rivera tbr-5 to my home theatre, its rated @ 160/45 or 70/20 depending on pentode/triode and high or low, so it would have more than enough power for a stereo set-up. they were used quite a bit in theatres originally; there is one nos on rivera's website for $1k.