"Fleetie" wrote


Its a thought, but it does depend on just what they are like. One of the
problems I see with the Chinese amps is the lack of a service
department, what do you do if one dies ?


You fix it.

(They all die from to to time - even SS gear ain't exempt....)



I have been considering exactly this.

If or when I get bored of the (presumably admittedly cheap-ish,
as valve amps go) sound from the YaQin (if it ever arrives...), then
it's on a lovely shiny chassis; why not rebuild the circuit
completely differently "under the hood"? Assuming I can get some
decent advice on some better circuits, and maybe I can....
Maybe even stick different valves up top, providing the sockets
are right?


Hmmm, bit quick to condemn this poor little bugger methinks it appears you
ain't even got it yet.....!!



Win-win! Lovely shiny gold chassis; much better circuit, maybe.

But if the damn thing ever does show up, I reckon I'll leave it be
for a while.


Good.

Part, if not most, of the reason a lot of people are wandering back to
valves is because they are getting fed up with the mushy/grey/boring sound
of a lot of the SS equipment that's floating about these days. To buy a
valve amp is not to seek more of the same but to get something which is
totally different and hopefully a lot more satisfying. This may take a while
to grow on you (or indeed it may not), I do hope you'll give it a fair
chance to prove it's worth.....

(At least, come the time you can't resist the urge to 'modify' it, the point
to point wiring of a lot of the Chinky amps will lend itself readily to
homebrew experimentation and tweaking.)


** The downside of eBay - hanging around when you expect a delivery and
being out when one turns up!!