BTW, now that I am using the EMM DV2 directly, I will be selling my Classe' Sigma SSP...I used the pre in 2 channel only in the bypass mode...Great preamp....Anyone interested let me know...John
Classe CAM 350 monoblock vs Classe CAM-400 or Bryston 4B3
I am looking at two
Classè
audiogon postings. A Classe
CAM 350 monoblock ($4,449) vs Classe
CAM-400 monoblock ($4,900).
I don’t know
Classè
amps all that well but the earliest
reviews I can find for the CAM 350 go back to
2001. The CA-400 may go back to 2009,
when was the CAM-400 last made? I don’t
know. Any differences in reliability or
performance?
Should I assume both need to be recapped? Does one amp run hotter than the other? Is one Class A the other class AB?
Are there any Classè experts out there? I’d guess for the newer more powerful CAM-400 and extra $450 is not much of a difference everything else being equal.
As an audiogon virgin, having never bought or sold here I
don’t know that “everything else is equal”. I don't know how much to trust what I read.
All source material will be FLAC files. Speakers are Magnepan 3.7i about two years old. I know I love how Classè sounds but I worry about the heat making the room unlivable. My taste in music is eclectic, almost anything except rap.
Perhaps the cool alternative would be a used Bryston 4B3 which Audiogon
has 4 for sale at $4,100 - $4,500, any of which would have to be newer and less
expensive than the Classè amps. I have never listened to Bryston 4B3 on magnepan 3.7i speakers. I don't know if I would like it?
A little guidance for the blind, but not deaf, yet, please; thank you.