FS: KT88 Single ended INT tube amp

RuSsMaN
RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
edited March 2007 in For Sale (FS) Classifieds
Creative Sound model KT88-SE

Cool little int amp, a glorious 10 watts per channel. 5 way binders, 2 inputs, IEC, alps pot, oil caps-the works. Uses one 12ax7 and one KT88 per channel, single ended. Under the back cover with the power and output trannies is a 5AR4 recitifier. Cathode bias, plug and play - tubes don't get any easier than this. This is US made, from a now defunct company in California - this is the REAL deal. This is not entry level fluff.

You get matched Sovtek KT88 and Telefunken smooth plate 12AX7 and a PS Audio Power Punch power cable.

The pictures are sort of deceiving, this amp is rather large - over 9 inches wide, 15 deep - and tipping the scales at over 20 pounds.

$275 shipped, with manual, original box, and cage.

I dig this little amp, I've been running some little JM Lab floorstanders with it, and LOVE it. I'd keep it, but I'm tired of dipping into savings, I'm selling this to pay for my broken hand.

Cheers,
Russ
Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • MillerLiteScott
    MillerLiteScott Posts: 2,561
    edited March 2007
    Cool little amp.

    Take care of your hand.
    I like speakers that are bigger than a small refrigerator but smaller than a big refrigerator:D
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,557
    edited March 2007
    Damn, you broke your hand!?! That sucks, I hope you heal quickly.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited March 2007
    Are you really using this to pay for your hand or someone elses... :D

    Cool little amp!
    madmax
    Vinyl, the final frontier...

    Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want... :D
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2007
    But it's not at least 500W! What a piece of crap!

    *leaves off to search the couch cushions for cash*
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited March 2007
    kinda makes me wish I still had my Bozak Symphonies.
    Living Room 2 Channel -
    Schiit SYS Passive Pre. Jolida CD player. Songbird streamer. California Audio Labs Sigma II DAC, DIY 300as1/a1 Ice modules Class D amp. LSi15 with MM842 woofer upgrade, Nordost Blue Heaven and Unity interconnects.

    Upstairs 2 Channel Rig -
    Prometheus Ref. TVC passive pre, SAE A-205 Amp, Wiim pro streamer and Topping E50 DAC, California Audio Labs DX1 CD player, Von Schweikert VR3.5 speakers.

    Studio Rig - Scarlett 18i20(Gen3) DAW, Mac Mini, Aiyma A07 Max (BridgedX2), Totem Mites
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2007
    .....
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited March 2007
    RuSsMaN wrote:
    .....


    I watched that fight. Dude looked like the elephant man after the bout.
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2007
    Last call, free PS Audio Power Punch thrown in.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • candyliquor35m
    candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
    edited March 2007
    Awesome opportunity here to get a feel for tubes without spending major bucks.
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  • Midnite Mick
    Midnite Mick Posts: 1,591
    edited March 2007
    I don't know how you keep giving stuff away. I can't believe anybody isn't even curious.

    Mike
    Modwright SWL 9.0 SE (6Sons Audio Thunderbird PC with Oyaide 004 terminations)
    Consonance cd120T
    Consonance Cyber 800 tube monoblocks (6Sons Audio Thunderbird PC's with Oyaide 004 terminations)
    Usher CP 6311

    Phillips Pronto TS1000 Universal Remote
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  • marvda1
    marvda1 Posts: 4,901
    edited March 2007
    i heard this amp and it is nice sounding, my speakers would just laugh at the 10 watts though.
    Amplifiers: Norma IPA 140, MasterSound Compact 845, Ayre v6xe, Consonance Cyber 800
    Preamp: deHavilland Ultraverve 3
    Dac: Sonnet Morpheus 2, Musical Paradise mp-d2 mkIII
    Transport: Jay's Audio CDT2 mk2, Lumin U1 mini
    Speakers: Rosso Fiorentino Volterra II
    Speaker Cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Organic Audio Organic Reference 2
    Interconnects: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Argento Organic Reference 2, Argento Organic 2
    Power Cables: Argento Organic Reference, Synergistic Research Foundation 10 and 12 ga.
    Digital cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2 bnc, Tellurium Q aes, Silnote Audio Poseidon Signature 2 bnc
    Puritan PSM156
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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited March 2007
    Midnite Mick wrote:
    I don't know how you keep giving stuff away. I can't believe anybody isn't even curious.

    Mike
    Oh I'm curious. There have been a few cool amps (mostly tubed) on the flea market this past weeks. I've just had to bite my lip and hold myself back for the major upgrade :o
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  • riglehart
    riglehart Posts: 276
    edited March 2007
    Is this a class A amp? Is that what "single ended" means?
    Jolida Tube
    Polk 11T, 7, 5, 5jr, 4
    Standard equip not worth bragging about.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2007
    Yes, single ended triode.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2007
    Final price reduction, talk to me on what's holding this one up?
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited March 2007
    That I bought Noel's Dodd ELP pre! Otherwise this would of been a fun amp to play with. I just haven't found a tube power amp or integrated I really liked. I'm kind of stuck on tubed pre/SS amp at the moment.
    DKG999
    HT System: LSi9, LSiCx2, LSiFX, LSi7, SVS 20-39 PC+, B&K 507.s2 AVR, B&K Ref 125.2, Tripplite LCR-2400, Cambridge 650BD, Signal Cable PC/SC, BJC IC, Samsung 55" LED

    Music System: Magnepan 1.6QR, SVS SB12+, ARC pre, Parasound HCA1500 vertically bi-amped, Jolida CDP, Pro-Ject RM5.1SE TT, Pro-Ject TubeBox SE phono pre, SBT, PS Audio DLIII DAC
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  • candyliquor35m
    candyliquor35m Posts: 2,267
    edited March 2007
    This is very tempting but I don't have the room for it. From what I understand, audiophiles love these amps for reasons I can only speculate are their simplicity and pure tube sound. Everyone might be wondering what polks would they drive at a very low listening level (2b's?). I listen to most stuff now at 9 o'clock volume so I might have to turn this up to 12 o'clock to get the same volume. No big deal and it's integrated so no pre-amp to spend extra bucks on.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2007
    Off to the bay....
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • cmy330go
    cmy330go Posts: 2,341
    edited March 2007
    I've been trying to justify this piece for a week now, but just can't seem to come up with a use for it.

    Hope the sale goes well.
    HT
    Mits WD-65737, DirecTV, Oppo DV-970HD, XBOX ONE, Yamaha RX-A1030, Parasound Halo A23, Rotel RB-985, Music Hall MMF-7, Parasound PPH-100, LSi-15, LSi-C, LSi-FX, LSi-7, PSW-1000, Monster HTS2600

    2 CH
    Parasound Halo P3, Parasound Halo A21, Sutherland Ph.D, VPI Classic 3 w/ 3D arm & Soundsmith Aida Cartridge, Arcam CD72T, B&W 802 S3, Monster HTS2500,
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2007
    Already sold on a buy it now.

    Cheers,
    Russ
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited March 2007
    Serves all us biatches right for sleeping on this one.

    I'm in unload mode, and this wouldn't fit in well with any of my current WIP rigs.
    Stereo Rig: Hales Revelation 3, Musical Fidelity CD-Pre 24, Forte Model 3 amp, Lexicon RT-10 SACD, MMF-5 w/speedbox, Forte Model 2 Phono Pre, Cardas Crosslink, APC H15, URC MX-950, Lovan Stand
    Bedroom: Samsung HPR-4252, Toshiba HD-A2, HK 3480, Signal Cable, AQ speaker cable, Totem Dreamcatchers, SVS PB10-NSD, URC MX-850
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