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Spectron Musician III - Can anyone comment on it?

I am currently on the hunt for a pair of amplifiers that have massive peak power capability with excellent micro dynamics and neutral presentation. I am driving a pair of Martin Logan Statement E2's

The Spectron Musician has been reviewed exceptionally well everywhere I looked and seems to fit the bill but I just can't get over 25 years of snobbery telling me to avoid switching amps because linear amps just sound better and, hey, the name on the faceplate ain't Krell or Mark Levinson!

Can I PLEASE get a few people with experience listening to these amps tell me why I should or shouldn't buy them?

I desperately want to buy a pair of the BAT VK-600SE's since I own mostly all BAT equipment but to produce, say, 110db peaks one would comfortably need several thousands watts of power in the bucket to meet the challenge. I don't think the BAT amps have that under the hood.

Advice?
sashua

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argyro
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Hi Rafael!

It was the standard edition. I suppose it had more that 500 hours on it. The thing is that the sound was so unrealistically sweet and I really cant blame any of the other componenents in the specific system.

Maybe it hadnt fully broken in, maybe it was the systems fault (that I doubt very much). Anyway.

Regards,

Michael
argyro
438 posts
 
I really dont like this amp. Except tha fact that it can drive any speaker on the market, the timbre it produces is the fakest timbre I have heard.
argyro
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10-09-08: Isanchez
I really dont like this amp. Except tha fact that it can drive any speaker on the market, the timbre it produces is the fakest timbre I have heard IN MY SYSTEM.

Actually in a different system that I knew its componenents quite well.
argyro
438 posts
 
Ok, iSanchez I don't mean to doubt your findings or these amplifiers I just said what I heard in the specific system.

Regards,

Michael
argyro
438 posts
 
hehehe!

Of course you are not deaf Dob, we just listen differently and have different tastes!

Happy Listening,

Michael

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