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APPJ mini2013 6J1+6P1 Tube Amplifier

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olneylee

Sep 20, 2018

Verified Buyer

Finally have it set up with new tubes: JAN-GE 5654W and Winged "C" (SED) 6P1P from the TubeStore. Not sure if they are better than supplied tubes or not (did not try them), just glad I have an equalizer to pump up the bass a bit. Driving my Paradigm Atoms in my office setup they sound sweet and airy, a nice and major improvement over the Lapai Class -T amp I was using. In my kitchen setup this mini was not up to competing with the APPJ EL34 ($275 massdrop), but this cheap and tiny form factor is a great trade-off vs. its bigger brother. From photo you can see Schiit modi multibit, Loki, and Vali 2, w/Topping mini audio rack, all sitting on an Atom speaker, driven via coax from Linux desktop computer. Overall fine in this application where I hardly have room for a larger amp. Wish the sound were a bit more chunky, but maybe with a powered sub I can further compensate. HI's/midrange are a bit thinner&rolled off, but Nora Jones live sounds great right now.

Follow-up: well the lack of bass finally led me to replace this cute amp with a logical and equally great value step up - sold for $179 by Tubedepot, the 3.5 watt/channel Tubecube 7 (but also made by APPJ, it figures!). With bigger transformers and EL84s it delivers a decent amount of bass and fits the same mini audio rack in my office. I did not try adding a subwoofer to the MINI2013, which might have achieved the same goal. Anyway unless you dont need much bass or have just minimal space I would not recommend this vs. the Tubecube 7, which has been wonderful driving Atoms w/o subwoofer. With more space I would still rather have an APPJ EL34 amp here, but EL84s are great also.

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