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| BAT VK-600 vs Pass XA100.5 Hello Rtn1,I also have experience with both REX and LA-300 and in many respect it matches yours and as a cello player I prefer "300" - its sounds (mosatly midrange where life is) more authentic to my ears, more as real cello including bottom octav... | |
| Cary SLP05 vs. Audio Research LS-26 " I want unity gain and I don't believe Joule or Lamm offer that... "Just for record, Joule does offer unity gain... and everybody agrees that power supplies are extremely important in preamplifiers (VK from BAT believes its about 90% of success).... | |
| Cary SLP05 vs. Audio Research LS-26 "I do own an LS26, and like it but now I am thinking of something new..."Why Cary, I wonder. Of course, it is the company with well deserved reputation but there is a number of such companies e.g. BAT, LAMM, Joule-Electra etc...? | |
| Why is high capacitance good? To get rid of any negative effects of capacitance, inductance etc - Spectron Audio use "Remote Sense" speaker cables, see - http://spectronaudio.com/cables.htm. Basically they take full advantage of their ultrafast feedback loop and include speake... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 "Dob, it doesn't sound like you have ever heard either "I heard both and moreover, I own Spectron. However, my speakers (B&W 802D) are not planar like yours (ribbons) and Kiwi (electrostatics) and I felt its more appropriate to discuss interac... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 Hello Macdadtexas,Your is first post ever that proclaimed Bel Canto to be better then Spectron and particualrly using Maggie. I have no doubt in your observation what so ever - but I want to understand why is it. What Spectron model did you use?So... | |
| Amps in the same class as Pass XA.5 series Compared to Pass XA200.5 - Plinius (Reference), BAT (VK600SE) and Spectron (monoblocks) - all have very similar seductive "musicality" and ability to convey power of full orchestra realsitically. Would love to audition new Mark Levinson class D am... | |
| Bridging amps, Good idea or bad idea? If you search for on-line reviews of Spectron amp owners then, as far as I know, without exceptions - all states theat then they move from stereo mode to monoblock sound quality more then double.I am also one of these. Spectron attribute this achi... | |
| pass lab owners: can i afford one? If you don't want to run expensive class A amplifiers due to their electrical bill - then its right time to look into class D amplifiers. If you want expensive, with prestigeous name and very expensive then look at Mark Levinson #53.($50k). If tha... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs "How would you compare the PD with the APL? "Excellent question. Frank, I also would like to know your opinion.ThanksRafael | |
| Joule Elektra 150 MK ii v Jeff Rowland Synergy 2i "...any benefits in the upper frequency range when going from a LA-150 SE to LA-300? "If there is it should be very minimal - as tubes and signal capacitors including bypass capacitors are identical in both models | |
| Good amps for Thiel CS 3.7 speakers? Thiel CS 3.7 speakers are very power hungry speakers. If you don;t like Bryston somewhat clinical presentation I would suggest you to investigate Spectrom Musician III amp. Not only very powerful but very musical as well and many, me including, co... | |
| Spectron musician VS. Pass Labs Amp Hello Audioconnection,In principle, you are correct: tube preamp have relatively high output impedances and most ss amps have relatively low input impedances and matching such would result , again in principle, in some losses at top and bottomNow ... | |
| What amp sounds best with the B&W 803D Speakers? "similarities and differences between Classe and McIntosh? "Similarities are that thay both are owned by B&W Group. Soundwise Classe is somewhat leaner but what is very important in my book: out-of warranty repair of Classe will cost you arm a... | |
| ARC versus Joule Electra Hello Cmalak: Before start critic of the responses please read the question:"Has anyone ever done an A-B comparison between the ARC Reference 2 Mk2 or LS 25 MK2 (both 6H30 tubed) versus the best preamps by Mr. Barber? "I repeat: BEST PREAMPS by Mr... |