![]() No need to pay extra for chips, salsa, guacamole, a bit of global feedback and a frosty salt-rimmed margarita. If you're thinking spicy, good for you - because this diminutive pi-filtered, 5AR4/GZ34-rectified push-pull pentode package is rather loaded. Here, it covers the whole enchilada Christmas-style - with green and red sauce. In the esoteric realm of micro power tube amps, that equates to a set of replacement valves in other places. Now, where it diverges from the usual high-brow treatment of exclusivity is with sticker price - $1,350. If you want to get maximum impact from this mini, mate it with rooms, listening levels and speaker sensitivities that aren't in excess of what it was designed to do. It's deliberately and only directed at a very confined target audience. 8 watts of output power will only go so far. The second one is far less open to interpretative opinion. If that means a few liver spots and wrinkles are air-brushed out of its centerfold rendition of your favorite tunes, so be it. Music through it - and especially with some inexpensive tube rolling - becomes unapologetically gorgeous. ![]() Does that mean clinical, sterile, cold and uninvolving? Does it mean unadulterated, pure and uncut? How you answer these questions will have a direct bearing on whether today's component, the Eastern Electric MiniMax amplifier, will ruffle or tickle your feathers. Room size: 30' w x 18' d x 10' h in long-wall setup in one half, with open adjoining living room for a total of ca.1000 squ.ft floor plan and significant 'active' cubic air volume of essentially the entire (small) house Sundry accessories: GPA Formula Carbon/Kevlar shelf for tube amps GPA Apex footers underneath stand and speakers Walker Audio SST on all connections Walker Audio Vivid CD cleaner Furutech RD-2 CD demagnetizer WorldPower cryo'd Hubbell wall sockets Musse Audio resonance dampers on DUO subs Mapleshade 4" solid maple platform under BPT conditioner Powerline conditioning: BPT BP-3.5 Signature Walker Audio Velocitor for source components Stands: Grand Prix Audio Monaco four-tier ![]() Reference BNC-BNC digital cable ma recordings BNC/BNC reference digital cable Mapleshade Planar power cord with DC bias Audio Magic Clairvoyant power cords Crystal Cable Reference complete wire set of analog and digital interconnects, speaker cables and power cords Z-Cable Reference Cyclone power cords on both powerline conditioner 2 x Stealth Audio Cables Indra analogue &Varidig S/PDIF cable Artistic Audio Vacuum Reference S/PDIF Dynamic Design digital interconnects Audience Au24 digital interconnect Speakers: Avantgarde Acoustic DUO nOrh SM 6.9, Gallo Acoustic Reference IIIĬables: HMS Grand Finale Analysis Plus Solo Oval and Oval 8 i2digital X-60 and Stereovox HDXV S/PDIF cables Mapleshade Ebony active S/PDIF interconnect Furutech Digi. Preamp/Integrated: Bel Canto PRe2 GenII Eastern Electric MiniMax Acoustic Reality eAR Pre2 Antique Sound Lab MGHead DT/OTL 32 Wyetech Labs Opal Īmp: AUDIOPAX Model 88 Bel Canto eVo 4 GenII Eastern Electric MiniMax amplifier Source: Cairn Fog v2.0 as transport Zanden Audio Model 5000 MkIII DAC Ortho Spectrum AR-2000 filter/buffer on the DAC's analog outputs Eastern Electric MiniMax CDP Ensemble Dirondo & Dichrono HiDac Accustic Arts Drive I 6moons audio reviews: Eastern Electric MiniMax Power Amplifier ![]()
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