I picked up one of these:
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up for my Harbeth 30.1's.
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I suppose I have a few hundred hours up on it now. I like it - alot. Extremely well screwed together, high value count and very well engineered. Value for money plus.
Tocks all the boxes I wanted: Tone controls (?) Loudness button (?) heaps of welly (?) great tone (?) very good MC phono stage (?), great headphone stage (?) and ....a remote (?).
I am using a Delos on the end of a Bauer/Ayre dps + dps tonearm and find the phono a great match to the Lyra. I'm struggling to think of what else in the integrated line of amplifiers under, at a guess, 10k that would touch this. It is a cracker. I much prefer its warmth to eg a Devialet - which I have also experienced/owned/sold.
I owned a A550 II years ago and found it too rich in sound - like syrupy tubes. Not like crisp tubes, if you know what I mean. Not so the 507 ux. It sounds like a warm-ish SS or a crisp-ish tube amp. But with half decent bottom end.
The phono in the 550A II was very ho-hum as I recall it - easily bettered by eg a Dyna P75 in current mode. Not so this phono. I feel I would have to enter some serious spend to better the integrated phono. I have a sense it would take alot of cartridge. I'll try and borrow an Atlas for a week or two (not my favourite cart) and see how it sounds. No one is lending out their Etna...
Matches the 30.1's very well. I bought (and returned) a PassLabs Int 60 to use with my Eclipse TD 712's - that was a very good amplifier, apart from relative lack of power, and no phono. I eventually sold my TD's to a mate precisely because I got sick of looking for an amplifier that would control them properly. I found one - a Gato 400 but like all Class D's I have heard (and I certainly haven't heard them all) it didn't do soundstage very well. My mate has..you guessed it - a Luxxie 507ux and lo and behold it is a perfect match. And he isn't giving them back.....
The 507 ux suffers no real defect I can think of at anything like the spend.
So moral of this tale is you can get great sound without spending a Czar's ransom. Pair the 507ux with some TD 712's (amazing speaker that) or something like Harbeth 30.1's (with Stillpoints, the best speaker Harbeth make, IMO) and you are done and dusted for around 10 or 12k (or whatever it is in The Donald-land). Just add a source de jour.
Well done Luxman. Hit one out of the park with this amplifier. No - its isn't a Diablo 300; but it is modestly priced in comparison.
ps - its got cool blue VU meters!
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up for my Harbeth 30.1's.
View attachment 26334
I suppose I have a few hundred hours up on it now. I like it - alot. Extremely well screwed together, high value count and very well engineered. Value for money plus.
Tocks all the boxes I wanted: Tone controls (?) Loudness button (?) heaps of welly (?) great tone (?) very good MC phono stage (?), great headphone stage (?) and ....a remote (?).
I am using a Delos on the end of a Bauer/Ayre dps + dps tonearm and find the phono a great match to the Lyra. I'm struggling to think of what else in the integrated line of amplifiers under, at a guess, 10k that would touch this. It is a cracker. I much prefer its warmth to eg a Devialet - which I have also experienced/owned/sold.
I owned a A550 II years ago and found it too rich in sound - like syrupy tubes. Not like crisp tubes, if you know what I mean. Not so the 507 ux. It sounds like a warm-ish SS or a crisp-ish tube amp. But with half decent bottom end.
The phono in the 550A II was very ho-hum as I recall it - easily bettered by eg a Dyna P75 in current mode. Not so this phono. I feel I would have to enter some serious spend to better the integrated phono. I have a sense it would take alot of cartridge. I'll try and borrow an Atlas for a week or two (not my favourite cart) and see how it sounds. No one is lending out their Etna...
Matches the 30.1's very well. I bought (and returned) a PassLabs Int 60 to use with my Eclipse TD 712's - that was a very good amplifier, apart from relative lack of power, and no phono. I eventually sold my TD's to a mate precisely because I got sick of looking for an amplifier that would control them properly. I found one - a Gato 400 but like all Class D's I have heard (and I certainly haven't heard them all) it didn't do soundstage very well. My mate has..you guessed it - a Luxxie 507ux and lo and behold it is a perfect match. And he isn't giving them back.....
The 507 ux suffers no real defect I can think of at anything like the spend.
So moral of this tale is you can get great sound without spending a Czar's ransom. Pair the 507ux with some TD 712's (amazing speaker that) or something like Harbeth 30.1's (with Stillpoints, the best speaker Harbeth make, IMO) and you are done and dusted for around 10 or 12k (or whatever it is in The Donald-land). Just add a source de jour.
Well done Luxman. Hit one out of the park with this amplifier. No - its isn't a Diablo 300; but it is modestly priced in comparison.
ps - its got cool blue VU meters!
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