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| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre A note I just received from a friend reminded me that it's time to post an update on the Criterion's break in process. I just checked my spreadsheet, and it appears that I have now reached approximately 510 hours of music making on the pre.With th... | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass Coffeey, I tend to agree with you. . . except that I hear badly reproduced bass on a great many amps, regardless of underlying technology. . . Very good bass is reproduced by very few amps, and some of these excellent bass reproducers happen to be... | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass Steve, ICepower is a technology with great potential. . . and with that go a lot of dangers. The problem is that while ICEpower ASP modules can be used to designed some very remarkable high end amps with bass texturing to die for, like the Bel Can... | |
| Meeting up at RMAF this year I will definitely be there. I already booked my room at the Marriott. This will be my 4th RMAF in a row. . . would not miss it for the world! G. | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass Within the Bel Canto line, I suggest the Reference 500 monoblpocks. . . they use the same ICEpower 500ASP that you have deployed, but John Sytronczer has built around them an amplifier that is incredibly musical. I have evaluated their bigger brot... | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass Steve, how many hours have you played music on those speakers? Can I assume the bass amps are the Legacy PowerBlocks? | |
| ICE amps vs analog amps for bass Steve, what ICEpower based amps are you using? If you are using bare modules, which ICE modules? What is the sensitivity and impedance of your speakers bass section?The other issue is that ICEpower amps take a long time to break in. . . before abo... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Clavil, unless I am mistaken, the MBL 101E speakers have an efficiency of 89dB with a nominal impedance of 4Ohms. Unless they did something extraordinary, like dipping into a 1 Ohm load at some frequencies, the 312 should have no issues. If you ar... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre At 193 hours of break in, here is one more update.What is quite frankly surprising me, is the dynamic range that the Criterion can yield without overt signs of clipping, while maintaining sonic and most of all musical integrity.part of the continu... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Thank you Brazcole, what other differences did you hear between SLP 05 and Criterion? | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Thank you JimJoice, you are correct in that the twin power/data pigtails are shipped with the preamplifier, as such I am definitely breaking those in together with the pre. The ICs and power cord are Furutech Evolution II that I have used in the s... | |
| Switch from Parasound JC-1 to Bel Canto Ref 1000? Seems to me that Ryan's immediate concern may be the amount of heat generated by the Parasound amp during summertime, rather than the sonic return on the investment of upgrading amp vs upgrading speakers. Hence his specific question about the Bel ... | |
| Switch from Parasound JC-1 to Bel Canto Ref 1000? Bryan, aside from their opposite prognostications, Stan and Bill are both correct. . . You may need to try out the BC Ref 1K Mk.2s side by side with your Parasound to gage if they are of your liking. I have found the BC Ref 1000 Mk2s to be extreme... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre At approximately 126 hours into the break in process it is worth while that I post a brief update.The sound of Criterion continued to open up and to relax until about 85 hours of playing time. . . I was starting to hear a considerable amount of am... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Thank you Jimjoyce25, what I have found out is that switch mode power supply, DC power supply, and microcontroller logic are each segragated in their own pockets milled in the control chassis. Furthermore, the data buss is kept off line until the ... |