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| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Ralph, please don't assume. I have had a pair in my house that were given to me, and have tried them on different occasions, and have always said with amps and speakers that are a mismatched they can be made to work together, but are just a bandai... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers "If you combine that with an amplifier that can double power as George suggests, the result is brightness"Popycock Ralph, it is the opposite with not only with ML ESL's but others as well and you get dullness with an amp that can't keep "keep it u... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Looks like Clio09 may have the right tube amp for the OP's Ethos speakers, should work well either off the 1ohm or 2ohm tap and maybe not sound like a fixed tone control, and only one transformer in the way.And you can see it in the second graph w... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Look at Stereophile tests (12 & 13 posts back)on tube amps into their simulated speaker load, and what happens to the frequency response, and then magnify that many times for the OP's Ethos speaker, as they are more severe than the simulated l... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Tomcy6It's not the power, it's trying to maintain a flat frequency response between 20hz to 20khz, amps with weak current delivery will sag with these wild impedances that the OP's ML Ethos speakers have regardless of listening level. And to try a... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Always best to get the right amp to start with, instead of putting a band-aid fix between it and the speakers.The most questionable part of a tube amp that uses an output transformer, why put another one in between it and the speaker, if it wasn't... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Sorry Ralph, but Uh, Uh. Autoformers are a band-aid fix only, after the owner has purchased the wrong amp to begin with, they cause more problems than they fix.Cheers George | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Well guys I beg to differ big time, I have Martin Logan Monoliths with the new aluminium vapour deposited panels, and they have a very similar impedance curve that the Ethos have being 1ohm or less in the upper mids/highs.When ever big tube amps t... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Now this is the actual simulated speaker load sterophile use. Overlay it with what's above and you can see that the Ethos is going to be much lower at 1ohm in the upper mid treble. And therefore will severely roll off in this area.http://www.stere... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Broadstone, look and you can see in the graphs 1 2 & 3 of the new reincarnation of the highly regarded Mcintosh 275. You can see that the black trace is what happens to the frequency response of the amp that can't do current as I've outlined a... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers The Peachtree 220 from what I found can almost double into 4ohm giving 400watt but I can find nothing into 2ohm. If it gave 600 or 700 into 2ohm then this is the sort of amp that would not whimp out into the 1ohm of the the Ethos. And at 72 years ... | |
| Best tube amp for electrostatic speakers Broadstone Hi.Written bench test results from one review on ML Ethos:"Measured overall impedance was low at 4 Ohms, in fact surprisingly low considering the bass unit is powered. This is due to the electrostatic panel that comes in hard at 400Hz o... | |
| Pass labs for Sasha's They are both Mosfet Stan, this is what the Stereophile bench tests say about XA160 which is also Mosfet."The actual output power at clipping 118W into 8 ohms, 59W into 4 ohms, and 29W into 2 ohms.Combinations of low-impedance speakers and large r... | |
| Pass labs for Sasha's Hi Stan.From 70hz to 250hz the Sasha's have a very heavy current demand on an amp, they are 2ohm and have a -45 degree phase angle at 70hz. So an amp has to maintain god current delivery to get the "very best out of them", this means amps that can... | |
| Dartzeel CTH 8550 experience "OP: I have no idea how he does it but the designer truly achieves a sound that is uniquely detailed, smooth and imminently musical"I believe it may use the same "Pleasure Control" (volume control) as their flagship NHB-18NS $25k preamp below, whi... |