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| Mac 402 or 501 for B&W 802D? I own B&W802D. Great speakers. All dealers who carry B&W also carry other B&W Group amplifiers: Classe and, I believe, McIntosh - at least I auditioned both of them. Both are OK and McIntosh is a touch better, IMO of courseThe amplifie... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Hello Muralman1,What model of Henry Ho amplifiers you use to drive your 1 Ohm speakers?Caps provide store energy only. Incidently, intial Spectron Musician III also has two or four huge caps. In next geberation they changed it to 100 smaller caps ... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Hello Muralman1,What model of Henry Ho amplifiers you use to drive your 1 Ohm speakers?It would be SHOCK to me if this is the amplifier with switching power supplies...Thank you,Rafael | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Guido,If you want uncompressed and excellent performance of Dvorak 9th - then get Esoteric SACD with Kertesz conducting Vienna Philarmonic. Phenomenal recording and ....performance!Weseixas: "How about these ICE amp" - you can ask Mapman who uses ... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? A few commented that peak creshendo takes only small fraction of time of the recording (and I agree with it) and therefore is not worth investing in truthful reproduction of these peaks (and I disagree STRONGLY with it).Simon Thacher of Spectron w... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Hello Eldartford:What amplifiers do you use in your system? I am very curious.ThanksRafael | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? "Yes, but recorded music is compressed - tailored for average audio system "Keith Howard (Hi-Fi News Sept 2007) made actual measurments or peak power and peak SPL obtained using B&W805, Music Fidelity power amp and classical music recordings.H... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? "How can classical music sound natural at a heavy volume ? "The answer to this interesting question lies in the attendance of classical music concerts parrtucularly orchestral, choral and operatic ones. You will be surpised to find out that SPL at... | |
| love my ARC LS7.. but need remote, suggestions? "Dob, don't the Joules tend to be more "tubey" than AR? "Yes, I believe so. But they are more musical and involving and more ACCURATE - at least in reproduction of cello, as far as I am concerned. Mrkoven can improve sound even much more by upgard... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP Se preamp tweaks and upgrades ? Hello Terry,I believe you have Spectron amps so you can add their excellent power cord - its simply superb and I have tried it with my source and preamp. Also, you need to have appropriate vibration control devices and then you utilize your preamp... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? "I listen to classical orchestral music at heavy volume. I detest reproduced music for always sounding more or less electronic and not acoustic "So be careful with amplifiers based on switching power supplies. To the best of my knowledge - all exc... | |
| love my ARC LS7.. but need remote, suggestions? Joule-Electra LA-150 Mk2 !!!!!!!!!!! | |
| esoteric x05 vs sa50 "...honestly i am not familiar with Spectron audio.. " John Ulrick their chief designer was co-founder of Infinity in 70's and I am sure you heard about their speakers.. As I understand, after selling Infinity he went mostly into Pro Audio designi... | |
| esoteric x05 vs sa50 "what after market powercord are you using for your sa-50 "I auditioned APL Hi-Fi player(based on SA-50)with Thunder from Spectron Audio(developed for very powerful amps). Excellent combo and the least expensive power cord in that class of perform... | |
| Puccini+Uclock vs APL NWO 4.0 SE vs PD MPS-5 "There is too much distortion and noise produced by tubes." Thank you Carlos for your astute observation. Let me also to add something.Noise: I have new Joule-Electra preamp which got Harry Pearson's 2010 HP Editor Choice Award. OK, when I place m... |