My new ( to me) Adcom 300 by 7 powers my B&W's just fine and solved a preponderance of problems. I am fairly new to high end audio, so take that into account. I have heard my same speakers on a McIntosh amp in a demo room and heard no difference. I am certain more seasoned ears would disagree, but for 1700.00 (slightly used)I do not think I am missing out on anything that would be audible (to me). What I did notice, like night and day, is that doubling the power made a slight difference in volume but a huge difference in overall sound quality.
How do Adcom power amps sound?
Hi,
My system is : PSB Stratus Mini, Cambrdige AZUR 540a and a Toshiba 3950 ( unmodded) in a 20x20 room with the speakers placed about 6 feet apart and mostly listened to in the close range.
If you arent familiar with my speakers they are a pretty tough load, 4ohm at 86db.
My amp only puts out 40-50 watts into 8ohm and 65 into 4ohm, as you can tell its having trouble powering my speakers, so im considering buying a power amp for them.
Im on a pretty tight budget , and the Adcom power amps seem to be priced right, so im considering something like the GFA-555 ( 200 wpc 8ohm and 325ohm).
Does anyone have any experiance with this unit, or similiar Adcom units? How do they sound, would it be an upgrade, power and quality wise over my current cambridge amp?
Id probabaly use the cambrdige as a pre- amp untill i can afford something better.
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