mike thomas
conrad-johnson pv14ls
Third time's a charm. I moved from the BAT VK-3, to the Classe 4L, to this little beauty, which I bought used.
It is kind of a nice combo of the VK-3, which has tubes but no remote, and the Classe, which is solid state, but with a remote. The CJ PV-14LS is a hybrid design with just two tubes, tiny little 6c4 mono guys. These are combined with FETs in the circuit. It has a pretty full-featured remote, too.
It came to me with Mullard tubes (pictured in the closeup). They aren't marked Mullard, but came from CJ with the assurance that they are Mullards (I've read similar stories more than once in the internet fora). These tubes were pretty hissy. I swapped the Mullards out for the Phillips JAN tubes that the seller also provided, and the hiss was much reduced.
conrad-johnson pv14ls
Third time's a charm. I moved from the BAT VK-3, to the Classe 4L, to this little beauty, which I bought used.
It is kind of a nice combo of the VK-3, which has tubes but no remote, and the Classe, which is solid state, but with a remote. The CJ PV-14LS is a hybrid design with just two tubes, tiny little 6c4 mono guys. These are combined with FETs in the circuit. It has a pretty full-featured remote, too.
It came to me with Mullard tubes (pictured in the closeup). They aren't marked Mullard, but came from CJ with the assurance that they are Mullards (I've read similar stories more than once in the internet fora). These tubes were pretty hissy. I swapped the Mullards out for the Phillips JAN tubes that the seller also provided, and the hiss was much reduced.