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The Levinson 33h? Pros and cons?

I was wondering how the 33h holds up against the competition?
I am considering purchasing a pair, but am unsure if they will meet the demands of my Revel Salons. I believe that the 33h will in fact sound better than the Levinson 436 series (they are Levinson's current Reference since the 33s were discontinued), but I'm biamping (maybe triamping if you count the pair of Revel Sub 30s I'm using also)and with the double pair of 436s I never run out of power. There is no current way for me to hear a pair of 33hs in my system or for that matter for me to hear a pair thus the deleimma. See my system for more info.
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porschecab The 33H’s, though lack a bit of power for ’aggressive’ listening periods
Your taking the piss yes?? This amp can arc weld off it’s speaker terminals.

Stereophile measuered:

8ohm = 265W

4ohm = 500w

2ohm = 900w

"As we don’t have a dummy 1 ohm resistive load capable of sinking the almost 2kW!!!! that the Mark Levinson is presumably capable of putting out into this load, I wasn’t able to check its clipping power into 1 ohms. However, the fractional decibel drop in dBW each time the load is halved suggests that this amplifier behaves as an almost perfect voltage source."—John Atkinson


In this load graph of 8ohm 4ohm 2ohm and a simulated speaker load one, that is usually a wavy line that is not flat because the amp can't drive the simulated load without dropping power at certain impedance, in this instance it is dead flat and you can't see it.

  https://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/M33fig1.jpg


Unlike many others that can't stay flat and act like a tone control "grey trace".

https://www.stereophile.com/images/718BP21fig01.jpg


Cheers George




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