Price (to performance); rich, full sound at low volumes; AMC is a cool company to deal with

original cvt 3030 has tubes soldered to boards (this can be factory modified!)

Sounds great; built like a tank. With a brilliant sound at low and middle volumes, the 3030 suits the city-dwelling audio enthusiast quite well. This unit is not for Dobly 7.3 freaks and other surround-o-philes. It pushes R and L only (the way Led Zep was meant to be heard). Pop the top and you'll see lots of independent components (transformers, capacitors, tubes, etc.) bolted to a pretty serious chasis. Theory of replaceable parts seems to be in full effect. One downer is that older models featured tubes that were soldered in place (not very user serviceable). I've just learned AMC will install sockets, replace the tubes, and upgrade a couple of other doo-dads for $135.

I've heard other amps that sound better, but they all cost more. Usually a lot more.

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McIntosh, Jolida stuff, mass-market HK and Onkyo

Went to the store to pick up my new Infinity Reference 61i mk2 speakers,been there before and listened to them a few times. This time i've made up
my mind, they are coming home with me. Asked the shopkeeper for a last
listening session before going home (these speakers are expensive in Sweden,
~ 1 400 dollars).
Wooow this time they sounded 10 times better than before.
Loked around and saw that the Pioneer amplifier was gone and replaced by a
black thing.... AMC CVT 3030a ?? The music was taken to a new dimension,
more details, more soul.
The combination with Infinity RF 61 speakers and AMC 3030a works perfect,
the speakers sensitivity of 92 db is perfect for the 2 x 30 wonderful classe A watts of the AMC.