EICO HF81 tube int amp - Opinions?

seo
seo Posts: 305
edited March 2006 in 2 Channel Audio
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Anybody familiar with this amp? Is $300 out of line for what it is?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
    edited March 2006
    I love mine; it's my 'everyday' amplifier. $300 in good condition, re-habbed with good tubes (not necessarily 'new', just 'good' ones) sounds OK to me.

    Secret, occult wisdom: the new production JJ EL84's are just fine...

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  • seo
    seo Posts: 305
    edited March 2006
    mhardy6647 wrote:
    I love mine; it's my 'everyday' amplifier. $300 in good condition, re-habbed with good tubes (not necessarily 'new', just 'good' ones) sounds OK to me.

    Thanks. Do you know what the wattage is? Is that a Bottlehead Preamp you're using? What speakers are you using with this amp? What type of music it does it do the best job with?

    Scott
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,802
    edited March 2006
    oy, so many questions... :-)

    About 14 wpc.

    Indeed, that's a Bottlehead Seduction phono preamp. The HF-81's onboard preamp's not nearly as good sounding, but my EICO's phono section is UNRESTORED (i.e., the tubes are nondescript old US ones and I haven't bothered to change the caps or any other passives).

    I mostly use a pair of mass-loaded folded tapered quarter-wave tubes (ML TQWT's) with fullrange drivers and planar supertweeters -- sometimes my 1974 Klipsch Cornwalls. Haven't ever tried it on my Monitor 7A's.
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    Does the best job with any sort of music (well, I haven't tried hip-hop).
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  • seo
    seo Posts: 305
    edited March 2006
    mhardy6647 wrote:
    oy, so many questions... :-)

    About 14 wpc.

    Indeed, that's a Bottlehead Seduction phono preamp. The HF-81's onboard preamp's not nearly as good sounding, but my EICO's phono section is UNRESTORED (i.e., the tubes are nondescript old US ones and I haven't bothered to change the caps or any other passives).

    I mostly use a pair of mass-loaded folded tapered quarter-wave tubes (ML TQWT's) with fullrange drivers and planar supertweeters -- sometimes my 1974 Klipsch Cornwalls. Haven't ever tried it on my Monitor 7A's.



    Does the best job with any sort of music (well, I haven't tried hip-hop).


    Cool. Looks like you have a nice 2 CH rig there for not a lot of $$$. That's the path I want to take, good SQ on a small budget.
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