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| Best Balanced Tube Preamplifier A week ago, Joule-Electra announced its new flagship, fully balanced line stage LA-450ME. Its the balanced tween of LA-300ME which many (I, for example ;--) consider to be the best preamplifier in the world.Next, "I need balanced inputs and output... | |
| Amp for Gallo Ref 3.1 and Modwright swl 9.0se? Anthony Gallo develops all of his speakers, specifically Ref 3.1 using Spectron Audio amplifiers. As far as I know they will present them at CES 2010 next January.Its all for the good reason: heavenly combination.Best of Luck Rafael | |
| Class-D or switching amps, any opinions on?? Hello Kijanki,May be word "inventor" in not the most accurate - however, as I have illustated with the quote from "50 Greatest A/V Innovations" over last 50 years - John ULrick is attributed for bringing class D into HIGH FIDELITY audio, specifica... | |
| Class-D or switching amps, any opinions on?? Hello Kijanki:Many people participated in the development of class D technology. However, as journal Sound & Vision reported in "50 Greatest A/V Innovations", January 2008 issue:"DIGITAL AMPLIFIERSGoing back to the Infinity SWAMP-1 of the mid-... | |
| Class-D or switching amps, any opinions on?? " ... they don't mimic the special quality of tubes -- a kind of creamy sweetness in the harmonic presentation. It is easy to understand the appeal of that tube sound; it has had a grip on me for years. But what the Spectrons do is, to my mind, ul... | |
| Esoteric SA-50 SACD player, Is it for me? Hello Glenn,In my subjective opinion:1 D_SLY filter is much better then FIR. Not even close2 CD: No upconversion - get more "air" in the top but lifeless presentation. Genkides wrote: "...for my tastes relatively uninvolving and lacking emotion" b... | |
| Preamp to match Parasound JC1 monos I own N802 (drived also by very powerful amp - Spectron) and I highly recommend Joule-Electra (LA-150 or LA-300) truly a magical synergy. I tried a number of preamps and J-E was the bestAll The BestRafael | |
| Class D amps,bang for your buck ones "Excellent sound mating with Gallo 3.1."This is probably because Anthony Gallo develop his speakers AND , as a rule, display his speakers (CES 2009, I am not sure about RMAF 2009) with class D amplifier - Musician III by Spectorn Audio.As a matter... | |
| Linn amps vrs Bryston Many owners of Magnepan 20/3.6 have Spectron Musician III - its sonic signature is SET midrange with "steel balls" for bass and dynamic range. Very big soundstage.All The BestRafael | |
| USHER BE-20 + Spectron Musician III MK2 If 200 lbs weight and generated heat does not bother you then Plinius Reference is a great amp. One of the best around. A touch better then Spectron in highs and touch worse then Spectron in the bass and slam areas. Midrange, I much prefer Spectro... | |
| best power cord for digital switching amp There is special power cord made specifically for powerful switching amplifiers by Spectron Audio. See - http://spectronaudio.com/remotesense.htm Thunder - not expensive, about $600 and FANTASTIC!Good Luck in Your SearchRafael,P.S. Elrod Silver is... | |
| I need SS muscle Albert Von Schweikerts developed all his speakers using very powerful Spectron Audio amplifiers. Both are synergistic for this reason alone. No mystery...Good Luck in Your SearchRafael | |
| The Best Tube Amplifiers vs Spectron ? "I was a little surprised that the Spectron mono's can't drive the Apogee Scintilla speakers....(they are rated 1400 watts@.5ohms)."Hello,If you mentioned Spectron rating then it has 1400 watts into 2 Ohm and not into 0.5Ohm load - to the best of ... | |
| The Best Tube Amplifiers vs Spectron ? "...comparisons between live and recorded music are in valid and hence unreliable. audible memory is very short."Rarely, I have read more horses..t then this. First, SHORT-TERM audible (or other) memory is "very" short, indeed. I took word "very" ... | |
| digital front end to rival best vinyl? Hello Crna39:"...Playback Designs MPS-5... it will accept a direct DSD signal via ST-optical. Hi-rez PCM and DSD..."Are you sure - I looked at their agent web site: http://www.bluelightaudio.com/playback_designs.html and it does not say a word abo... |