gladstone
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| Digital sources best with Hydra 8's analog outlets I dunno. It seems to me the Hydra-8 works great. But I don't think any power conditioner works optimally with the amp plugged into the same equipment as the front-end. I wouldn't really blame Hydra for this state of affairs. | |
| McIntosh 501 or 602 for Magnepan 20.1 It won't be too much. It should sound a lot better with more power.Yes, the JC-1 can run the 20.1s, but it doesn't control them the way a truly high-powered amp does. Just look at how little the JC-1s weigh. The real bruisers weigh 100-200 pounds ... | |
| Digital sources best with Hydra 8's analog outlets You shouldn't be plugging the power amp into it, anyway. It should be on a separate line. | |
| Review of Dartzeel NHB-108 Amplifier Mike--perhaps the Dartzeel can handle the VR-7. But when you have the VR-9 with the powered sub, you are, in effect, biamping. The Dartzeel doesn't have to cope with those bass frequencies, which means it should play with even more refinement and ... | |
| Review of Dartzeel NHB-108 Amplifier DBK--you're asking that Dartzeel to do a lot more when you take out the powered subs of the VR-9 and go to the VR-7. Why not look at the DB-99? | |
| Review of Dartzeel NHB-108 Amplifier Mes--did you mean postpartum oppression, perhaps! Not a bit of it, I assure you. You may need to up your bench presses, though, if you want to make that cape look good.By way, Mike, I wonder if that sub was properly set up--if they aren't integrat... | |
| Review of Dartzeel NHB-108 Amplifier Actually, Hooper, I don't believe a word of what you're saying. You knew this would happen, didn't you, you cunning lad? Stop playing the innocent. | |
| McIntosh 501 or 602 for Magnepan 20.1 Don't even think about the Paraounds JC-1s on the 20.1s. I tried them and they were pushed to their limit. Their transformers are too small. They can't deliver enough voltage. You need a very powerful amp either a Classe Omega, Rowland, Levinson, ... | |
| Review of Dartzeel NHB-108 Amplifier It seems to me it comes down to personal preference. I never succumbed to the Kharmas because, for me, they lacked the "jump" factor. The von Schweikert, Jrs., which I heard next to the Kharma midis in NY, had it. I was impressed. But: it's certai... | |
| Review of Dartzeel NHB-108 Amplifier I'd be surprised--no, astonished--if Mike meant that the Dartzeel has the sonic slam overall of the big amps. I think what he means is that on the Kharmas, the little Dartzeel packs enough current to make it come alive, though I myself think two w... | |
| Velodyne DD Series My question didn't ask if bass in general is fast, but what the relative speed of the 12 is to the 15. | |
| Kharma 3.2 to MidiGrand Upgade??? FMPND--do you prefer the Lamm sonically to the Tenors? | |
| Anybody tried EMM DCC2 into preamp? Much of the magic is in the power supplies as well... And it may not just be tubed preamps, I hear there's a little darting Dartzeel on the way as well... | |
| Anybody tried EMM DCC2 into preamp? Magnepan 20.1, Omega mono blocs, VPI HR-X, Meitner CDSD. | |
| Anybody tried EMM DCC2 into preamp? I'm not sure that's true. I'll have to do further listening, but there does seem to be more detail using a tubed preamp, which was counter to what I expected. I, too, assumed that an extra interconnect and preamp would degrade, not improve, the si... |