Starting from Basically Scratch. Help me power some Wilson Watt Puppys


Alright hopefully the title explains the basics. I just made a deal on some Wilson 4Ω Watt Puppys (Series 7), along with a self powered Wilson Watch Dog.

Starting from scratch for PreAmp/DAC/Amp. This is actually to use primarily Firestick, Chromecast, and PS4 (I have a bunch of consoles, but those all get HDMI combined into one HDMI port and sound is not priority these obviously). Music is pretty varied. Hip Hop, Orchestral, Jazz, etc. Will likely try to stream some Hi-Res Audio where I can, but can tackle that bridge later, but keeping that in mmind for components today...

I’m OK with all in one Integrated. I’ve been looking at the Linn Majik, which looks like it would do everything, with 43-100W of Power (power depending on generation I find). I feel like the Puppys would want more power though.

Also looking at splitting everything up with Schiit components.

I really like the look of the Devialet Expert 200-220.though I would need a pre-amp to get all the sources to that one. Can find that for $2k-$3k used

I’ve always loved the idea of McIntosh, but the budget won’t allow it here.

I have a fair knowledge background in car audio, but the more I look at home audio, I see huge differences that I haven’t learned yet. For Example High end big speakers, talking about "minimum power of 12w" etc.

Thoughts? It’s always fun to spend someone else’s money right?

Thanks everyone that reads this chapter one of my book.

Kurtis

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You didn't mention your budget so frankly, I would just call Hoover Dam and have them run a dedicated 100 KV, 3 phase line out to your house along with a step down transformer to three split phase lines of 230VAC each.  Use one leg for the stereo, one leg for the home theater, and one to run the rest of the place.   :-)  J/K

Take a look at Parasound Amplifiers, I have a couple of those now and I am quite impressed with them.  For the 4 Ohm speakers, I would look at an amp that specs the 4 Ohm output power and is also stable into a 2 Ohm load.  You want headroom in spades at lower impedances.  The Halo models are the top of their line, and the Classic series are very hard to beat in sound quality.  I think they are on a factory dealer wide sale at the moment. 

I am not familiar with their new preamps, so I won't comment on those.  I have an older one that is quite nice although I don't use it much since I bought a Conrad Johnson preamp.  They are John Curl designs, so obviously they are going to be good.

I am probably being too low on my budget now. I did say before $2k-$3k. The Parasound does look nice. 👍