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gfry OP Wow, they look very much like the Forte I used to have, to me the only real musical Klipsch made. Your Quartets you have from what I saw on the net are 97.5 dB efficiency. I think a great sounding good priced amp for those, if you don’t want to cause ear bleed is a $799 Class-A linear Schiit Aegir power amp, and you can trial them for 14 days. https://www.schiit.com/products/aegir Cheers George |
Granted what I'm relating to you is regards to bridged integrated amplifiers but it may apply. I had a single Pathos Classic MK III and it sounded quite good but I read that a bridged pair took a sonic leap forward and the single amp really was on the weak side at 70w/channel. I bought another and bridged accordingly and indeed, most of the sonics improved. Immediacy was the most obvious as sounds were now more forward and easily discerned. Dynamics improved as well. My only complaint was that I felt the soundstage wasn't as deep. The fellow that turned me onto bridging the Pathos amps suggested I try the same with the Cambridge Audio 840W. I did have this amp but never got around to bridging them but heard the improvement was also obvious. The answer to your question may well depend on the amps. |
gfry Is there any advantage to using two bridged power amps Yes here are the reasons. https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/1926175 If you have two amp the same your far better off vertically bi-amping https://www.av2day.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/biamp2.jpg If dissimilar amps are use they need to be horizontally bi-amped with a simple passive ($49 Schiit Sys) volume on the input of the louder amp so both amp can be level matched. https://www.av2day.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/biamp1.jpg Cheers George |