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07
Mar 2012

Tube nirvana!

The Rogers High Fidelity EHF-100 vacuum tube integrated amplifier is one of the newest additions to our showroom.  Designed to uncompromising specifications and hand-made in Warwick, NY, with military-grade components, the EHF-100 is one of the finest tube amps I’ve heard for under $10,000 (and at $6335.00 it’s truly a bargain).   It’s also a finely-crafted piece of electronics whose build-quality can rival amps costing many times more.  How well built is it?—the manufacturer offers the best warrantee I’ve ever heard of: lifetime, transferrable.  What this means is that—as long as you don’t drop it, spill your bourbon on it, or otherwise abuse it—Roger Gibboni  guarantees that his amp won’t break: ever (excluding the tubes, of course).

So how does it sound?  Exquisite.  Unlike almost any other tube amp on the market, Mr. Gibboni chose to use a pentode input stage rather than the typical triode design.  Why?  I’ll let him explain: “Using a pentode input stage yields all of the amplifier gain in a very short signal path; this reduces phase induced distortion and layout anomalies with very controlled linearity. [This results in] lots of bandwith, detail, depth of soundstage and incredible transient response.”  I don’t have Mr. Gibboni’s engineering background, but after listening to his amp for several weeks now, I have to say that my ears are convinced: this tube amp is truly second to none, especially at this price.   It has the rich, liquidy sound that tubes are famous for, but combines it with a fast, punchy (and ample) bass response that is remarkable in the world of relatively inexpensive integrated tube amps.  Very conservatively rated at 100 watts per channel, the EHF-100 seemed ready to blow the front windows out of my showroom when mated to the Totem Wind loudspeakers.  Of course, if you DO need more power, two EHF-100 amps can be run as a monoblocks.

Curious?  Come in and have a listen!  You WILL be impressed.

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