Casablanca Monos

***Please note these come as a pair.    “Here’s looking at you kid…” The Casablanca’s earned their name due to their classic looks and commanding performance, and came about in response to requests from our customers for an amplifier capable of driving difficult speaker loads while retaining the purity of our SET line. Typically high power single-ended amplifiers are either run in pentode or using exotic power tubes; for this task we instead opted for a push-pull based amplifier based on the classic Eico HF97. This choice allows the use of commonly available tubes with texture and realism while providing more than enough power to control nearly any speaker. The Casablanca’s provide 60 watts with KT88/6550 power tubes and 45 watts with EL-34s. Using a 12AX7/6SN7 front end allows access to a vast array of NOS/NIB tubes without the costs and sourcing of exotic tube choices. The goal is to bring classic tube texture, harmonics and realism without reliance on exotic choices or modern solid