Quote Originally Posted by Feanor View Post
In LARGE living room the 60 wpc Jolida you will probably find underpowered. If you want to stay with tubes then, OK, there are obvious logical options: (1) replace both your current preamp and power amp with separate tube components -- but this will strain your budget severely; (2) replace you preamp and power amp with an integrated tube amp but it will need to be 100+ wpc, (3) keep your current preamp and replace your power amp with another tube power amp, or (4) keep your tube preamp but replace your power amp with a solid state power amp.

As for option (3), many people attest that this a very satisfactory substitute for an all-tube setup.

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I am leaning towards option 3 if I may have to. In this case, which tube amp is capable of singing with my budget. The JD 502's were awesome. I have not heard the JD 1000 but I have been told that they are nowhere near in comparison to the JD 302 or 502 in terms of quality.