They lied.

With amazing prescience, I bought a Classe Model 70 2 weeks ago and it arrived today. Someone, I won't say who, but his initials are Spkrmn, insinuated that I paid too much but $500 for a 10 year old amp that sold for $1200 in 10 year old dollars isn't too bad, I thought. When I opened the box I could beleive it was really brand new. Not a mark on it. Do some music lovers really place a component on a shelf and never haul it back and forth 'tween shelf and bench?

You should hear the bass from this beauty on both the 2226s and the Altec-Universitys. Cool-running class AB. Cymbals and kick drum that tubes will never do. Vocals not SET but lovely still.

I really wanted to find a Bedini 25/25 but this is awfully close and half the price.

Cool!

I listened to a Classe Cap-151 amp into a set of the top of the line B&W speakers right after I moved to Amarillo. Incredible sounding. They had the amp and a matching CDP (CDP-10) left over from the year before as demo models in the neighborhood of $2500 for the pair. Those are the only Classe products I've ever seen, but they sure were nice.

If I ever get this dang Darling project finished I'll have a summer amp. Just need to pick some OPT's and I'm almost home.

Classe doesn't have any info on their site and no one at that other site can agree whether it's a true balanced circuit but at least the XLRs are there.

Class-A is the pronunciation, I guess, but class AB is the circuit. I let it cook all night and it didn't even get warm. Just what's needed.

How much power? What are the outputs, discrete, chip, FET?

It kind of reminds me of the ProFet amp, which I really like. The ProFet gets hot enough to cook on, probably generates more heat than my Audio Note Kit 2. But that plain look is kind of cool. It doesn't wow the people at shows like a tube amp does, but I like the looks and love the sound.

I'm going to post for a copy of the manual elsewhere. No way I'll open it up; you'd never believe it's not new and I'll keep it that way to trade up down the road.