To the people claiming you want a certain class of amp to play "demanding" metal is wrong. I run @atmasphere class D and a tube phono and pre and am completely satisfied with speed and detail. All amps will work, test a few if you can. Oh and I play death metal to grind to hardcore to classic rock and acoustic. All sound fantastic and I listen at around 76db. Avoid advice from those with sweeping generalizations.
Accuphase or Leben for heavy metal
Guys, I have a short and practical question. I have an opportunity to buy either Accuphase E600 or Leben CS600X at good price. I listen to a wide range of music, but particularly interested in which if these two amps is better for heavy metal particularly. Under all other equal conditions, speakers are easy to drive 90db Piega at the moment. Maybe none of these two, which is also an option.
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I also listen to heavy metal and what I found that sounds good is AB 250W amp that is capable of pushing about 40W class A and speakers that are no les than 94db, also big deal is a preamp, less complicated is better. My first system that was producing really great HM was Threshold S550e paired with Threshold FAT10 or Threshold T2 pre and JBL 4367, they do great job with neutral sound and very dynamic sound, I upgraded from that system to Pass Labs X250.8 and Pass Labs XP12 pre..... now that's impressive sound ! |
+1 @lalitk on SPL Their stuff is powerful, dynamic, clean, holographic while balanced, yet still super nuanced. I’ve got the Elector pre and have to say that I’m enjoying everything from chamber jazz to AC/DC with two different amps used so far. Something about that high voltage rail tech they’ve designed. Elector pre + Performer s1200 or Elector + s800 (budget option). They also have incredible mono amps. But looks like you want to stay with an integrated and hope I’m not colluding the discussion! I do need to add, however, that those Piegas are sensitive enough to not need too heavy a wattage amp. You may not need so much wattage to drive them to concert levels, and that current via power supply and capacitance delivery (both in speed and sustained demands) by design is way more important than overall wattage. But wattage does help. My uneducated guess, at least 120 watts per channel would be fine if the amp is down to 2 ohm stable. Also, are the Piegas floor-standers? And what’s your room size?
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@OP Passlabs X250.8 with an appropriate pre-will work very well on metal. As reflected in many of the comments, you need the ability to play loud with lots of control. A pair of Parasound JC1s would also be ideal - preferably pre owned. Since they moved to the JC1+ they have gotten very expensive. Both the Pass and Parasound are biased in to Class A for the first 25 watts so they are pretty refined on acoustic music too. |
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