Rusty Messages: 1190 Registered: May 2018 Location: Kansas City Missouri
Illuminati (3rd Degree)
Doing kit building is very gratifying in that you put some sweat equity into your listening pleasure. And you get quality audio at a discount. My first foray into kit audio was back in the 80's when the old Hafler line was available for the hands on audio amature. And today the availability of kit building rivals the pioneering days of Heathkits from the 50's and 60's. Look around and tempt yourself with what you can solder up yourself and then listen to, marveling to yourself, I did that!
Another fine tube kit line is Transcendent Sound, Their grounded grid preamp has been around for a couple of decades now and it's proven to be one of the cheap'st ways of getting high end at a beer budget. https://www.transcendentsound.com/grounded-grid-preamp.html