What does a $350,000 home audio amplifier sound like? Fucking awesome, apparently, which made me cough a little exhalation of relief as I was reading Stereophile’s review of the Wavac SH-833, the third-of-a-million dollar amp in question. I don’t know from audio, really, but I know what I like, and that’s vacuum tubes, lots of them, all visible and glowing, and the SH-833 has those in spades. It also has stuff like direct-heated-triodes and single-ended, class-A tube monoblock power, but I don’t know what the hell those are. But when Michael Fremer says the SH-833 is the best sounding amplifier he’s ever heard – the bastard got one installed for two months by the engineers who created it – I’m going to just have to believe him, because otherwise, I’d have to believe all those stereotypes about audiophiles being overly susceptible to buying ridiculously overpriced gear, and then my whole reality would come crashing down around me.
Oh, and for the budget conscious, there’s a $70k bargain version. But could you ever show your face at the ball wearing that? (Thanks, Andy!)
Read – Wavac SH-833 monoblock power amplifier [Stereophile]
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