REISONGA10 EL34 Hi-Fi Audio Stereo Tube Amplifier Single-end Class - A Amp

Just kidding. No not really. If this thing sounded just "okay" I'd still keep it for looks alone. Although, I do want to give it plenty of hours first before I pass judgement. I will return with a sound update, just wanted to drop some sweet pics! Although, right off the bat I've noticed how much more bass I'm getting out of this than from my Onkyo 9150.Couple of points aside from the sound:- You do not understand how heavy this is. I shudder thinking about the A50.- The packaging is superb! Kept everything safe and sound (pun intended).- Better binding posts than most speakers I've had. Quite surprised at this!- Using my 90db BR03 and A5.4 with dial mostly at 9 o'clock. Plenty loud.- Absolutely stunningly beautiful in person. Pictures don't do it justice.- Ordered an assortment of tubes for some good ol' tube rolling. I will return.*UPDATE: Been using this for about a month now and have tried it with Chane A5.4, Focal 706, Triangle BR02, BR03, and Klipsch RP600m. Best pairing so far has been the RP600m, followed at a distance is the A5.4. I'm not a fan of what it did to the BR02 or BR03 as it made the BR03 too bright and the bass too bloated on the BR02. I'm currently using it with Gold Lion KT77 and Voskhod 6N2P.It definitely has more personality and soul than my 9150, which is quite surprising as the 9150 is a long-standing favorite of mine for its tone. The A10 is also more textured and sounds more spacious. The music sounds more "alive". The only downside is it can sound a bit bright and bassy with certain parings. It really transformed the bass on the BR03 and made it way too bass heavy for my liking, so much so I had to pull it out another foot from the wall just to take the edge off. The BR02 pairing was just bad, but that speaker already sounded like an inferior BR03 to begin with. But it really makes the RP600m sing, especially with the two sets of Gold Lions I'm running them with (KT77s and 12AX7s w/ socket adapters). The bass is incredible. Tight, controlled and with a shocking amount of heft with absolutely NO bloat! It'll be fun to try this amp it with other speakers!*UPDATE 2: I've built my tube collection a bit. I have 4 sets of power tubes: stock Psvane EL34b, Electro Harmonix 6CA7, Gold Lion KT77, and Tungsol EL34b. 3 sets of preamp tubes: stock, Voskhod 6N2P and Gold Lion 12AX7. And 2 rectifiers: stock and Gold Lion 5AR4. I'm pretty much happy with all except the 5AR4 which makes gives it a thinner overall sound and the Psvane EL34b which sound kinda lifeless. Gold Lions definitely are the best for me, but the 6CA7s are also right up there and look nicer due to their fat-bottles and are a better value. I've had no issues with the preamp socket adapters and have probably 150 hours on them with the Gold Lion 12AX7s. Although, I've noticed there is now a Reisong A12, which has the 12AX7 sockets as standard instead of the 6N2P.F.Y.I, my pictures are 6-30 second exposures at f/1.4 - f/5.6. The tubes are nowhere near that glowy during use.

This is my second tube amplifier from China. I have previously purchased a Yaqin MC-13S about 5 years ago and it's still going strong. This unit arrived triple boxed, the outer amazon box was labeled fragile and after years of ordering and selling online I have found that labeling something fragile is a magnet for abuse, and this was no exception. the outer box was in very bad shape. Fortunately the amp itself comes double boxed and protected with foam. The tubes come in 5 boxes securely wrapped underneath the safety cage.The amp itself seems well constructed and the polished finish is beautiful. Something to note and something I learn with the MC-13S is that it needs to be gently cleaned regularly or it will attract a lot of dust, scratches and stain very easily and it's a pain to clean. I have made a nice nylon cover for it to keep it from happening again.Setting it up is very straight forward, set the tubes in the proper socket and orientation ,plug your speakers, your source and the power cable, turn it on and let it warm up for a bit and you're set. The amp will automatically adjust the bias so no need to do anything. The sound out of this little amp is excellent, very warm and clean provided you have the proper speakers for it. It is most definitely not a 12 Watt per channel amp as advertised (maybe 6 watt) and it will struggle to drive anything under 90db efficiency. My amp is powering a pair of Klipsch Heresy that are very sensitive ( 96db) and can get to be quite shrill and shouty with solid state amps, but with this amp there's none of that.Now to the bad part. In my first inspection I found that the power switch is not mounted straight, so the knob sits bent very slightly to the right, it also came loose so I had to re tighten the screw that holds it in place. Next was the power cable, it does not make proper contact when plugged in to the amp socket and had to be replaced. The cable is just a standard IEC power cable so none of this was a big deal and was an easy fix but you shouldn't be expected to be fixing things like this on a new amp even at the low price. Finally, one of the EL-34 tubes was defective, this would really be an issue if you don't have any spare El-34, KT-77 or 6CA7 tubes around. Now the good part is I contacted the seller TubeAmplifierStore and they replied very promptly with all the info I needed about compatible rectifier and preamp tubes. They also sent me the schematic of the amp and a new tube, it arrived two days later.Overall I think is a great entry point to tube amps if you are curious about tubes and the kind of sound they bring to music or if your budget is below more know tube amp brands that can be quite expensive. Just make sure you have some efficient speakers or you're not really gonna get much out of this amp.UPDATE: It's been 18 months since I got it and It's still as good as back then, no issues at all. I bought socket adapters to replace the 6N2 preamp tubes with 12AX7, worked great but they're not connected the same so don't try it without socket adapters. Also bought an RCA switch, having 4 sources and only two inputs gets annoying fast. Lastly the price has gone up since I got mine, It's still great for what you get but not at the bargain price it once was.