My intuition says Pass. But I have owned Pass amps for decades… and heard Krell along the way. I have always been more attracted to Pass. But, it is personal taste… so I am not sure this is of value to you.
@audphile1 …good point to the OP.
If you are going to buy one blind without a personal audition bake-off first, then it’s a much more risky bet. If so, then I’d stick with a like brand power amp married up to the pre-amp .. ( PASS to PASS, KRELL to KRELL …. etc., etc. …) |
@audphile1 Hi, my pre amp is a PS Audio Perfectwave BHK BHK |
So why not go with the PS Audio BHK amps? You’ll have synergy between the BHK pre and amps and eliminate the guess work Otherwise the Pass X250.8 would be my choice. It should match as far as output impedance of BHK pre to input impedance of the X250.8 but PS Audio doesn’t list gain. Pass preamps have around 9db gain. If the PS Audio is much higher you will have limited usable volume range. Which may or may not be a problem. All this is a guess work I’m talking about eliminating. |