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| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Even though the OP’s title is "Amplifier current vs watts; why is current more important?" Just to take it off topic as oddio did, with his (excuse me) even grosser misinformation. To show why output impedance (damping factor) is not the only caus... | |
| Benchmark AHB2 Amplifier, opinions and competition One amp for each speaker, one channel running the low frequencies, the other channel running the tops. To my ears, this is always more open, dynamic and detailed. That's because in vertical bi-amping all the energy stored in the power supply o... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? The " tone control" effect you speak of is due to output impedance of the amp. Yes, this also as well on top of current starvation we’re talking about. Any amp that has low damping factor, (output impedance is that high) should not be considered ... | |
| Phono Pre Impedance Matching- Herron VTPH -2A or Manley Chinook krabbypantz Impedance Matching- Herron VTPH Hi, no impedance matching issues I talk to Herron to make sure.One of my customers runs his Herron with my Lightspeed Attenuator passive, and loves it, here is his report on it.https://forum.audiogon.c... | |
| Electrocompaniet Nemo or BAT VK-600se with Wilson Alexia ? I’d go with Electrocompaniet. Not if they're bridged as I suspect, not with those speakers.Cheers George | |
| Electrocompaniet Nemo or BAT VK-600se with Wilson Alexia ? billandsol Electrocompaniet Nemo or BAT VK-600se with Wilson Alexia ? My friend has the Alexia’s they are a pig of a load for and amp, they go down to 0.9ohm in the bass. They need amps with current to get the best from the bass, big current that ... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? it could be done more specifically and more consistently with an equalizer than with the chance So true, why have an amp that can't maintain a flat frequency response, into a speakers wavering impedance load, you may as well have a graphic eq... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Thanks for the heads up andy.Cheers George | |
| Need to replace a BAT VK200 amp with a smaller and lighter but with equal sound quality. Surely the, Schitt amp is an unbelievable bargain at $699. Yes it’s a no brainer for the price, and because it uses BJT’s as output devices, it wouldn’t surprise me "if" it keeps up the current into hard loads that the Benchmark can, they seem to... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Get over it. Bit rude! that response for being shown the truth. After all it’s what the subject of this thread is all about.Educating is a form of telling, and if you don’t want to learn why current is needed from an amp, and what happens when t... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? And for me, that’s OK and perfectly fine. A little response tailoring often suits me. It’s not your place to decide what’s OK for folks. It’s just that we don’t all want that. No need to get your knickers in a knot.That fine, if you're wi... | |
| Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home The $600aud Cambridge CXC better than CEC TL51x transport we a/b them, and the CXC is new with warranty, with less jitter.Cheers George | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Unless you have a very benign flat impedance speaker (rare) that doesn't wander to much from being a flat impedance between 20hz to 20khz, only then is an amp with watts but little current OK.You need an amp with both "watts" to suit the dB effici... | |
| Is it common for tubes to outweigh the cost of the amp or preamp? Viva tubes https://www.vivatubes.com/search.php?search_query=kt88§ion=product Thanks for that link. Yes even better on some of the equivalent brand, but if your can prove your in the industry and join/login I think you'll find "some"... | |
| Amplifier current vrs watts; why is current more important? Doesn't matter what "spin" is put on it, when you have good current, the amp stays flatter in frequency response, instead of looking like a tone control.An amp needs current along with the watts, as these frequency response graphs show, of the sam... |