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    FOLLOW-UP

    Oct 15, 2019 4 minutes
    BY ART DUDLEY

    THIS ISSUE: A second listen to a single-ended amp from Air Tight.

    Nine months ago, while I was busy reviewing Axiss Audio’s Air Tight ATM-300R single-ended power amp ($16,995 with Electro-Harmonix output tubes), my new old house was still new to me, and I hadn’t succeeded at getting my 1966 Altec Flamenco loudspeakers to sound consistently good in its 11' by 16' living room. So before I made my listening notes on the Air Tight, I banished my Altecs to the garage—temporarily, of course, until such time as I knew how to get them to sing in their new setting—and relied instead on my DeVore O/93 loudspeakers, which took to my new living room like Unitarians to a vegan picnic.

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