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| Jeff Rowland Capri preamp Congrats Clio, I found that my own Capri kept opening up throughout 4 months of heavy usage. I recommend that you put about 1,000 hours of playing time on it yourself before you decide what the creature does for living. By the way, you should leve... | |
| Oxymoron: High powered tube amps that stay cool Hi Buscis2, could you point us to some Chinese green designs that you have found particularly interesting. . . I will look them up at RMAF for sure. Guido | |
| Oxymoron: High powered tube amps that stay cool Hi Ryno, living in Austin I do empathize with your plight! But I fear that the only time pure tube amps are cool is when they are turned off. . . but then so do a lot of SS class A and A/B like my own JRDG 7Ms. If you were not interested in explor... | |
| Class D amp with Tube Preamp Combo? Jaspert, with 150 to 200 hrs on them, the Bel Canto are likely not even a quarter broken in. If at about 1,000 hrs of making real music -- not idle time -- they are still not of your liking, it may be time to move on. Do keep us posted. | |
| class d Dpac996, you have compared 1 relatively inexpensive ($1400) switching amp with SS and tubed devices ranging in price between $5000 and $8000 and found the $1400 amp to be wanting--not an overwhelming surprise. You may have wanted to compare the fi... | |
| Class D amp with Tube Preamp Combo? Grandetech, from an impedance match you should be fine. Your ratio is 25000 / 400 = 62.5. I suspect that anything greater than a ratio of 25 is above the 'waterline'. G. | |
| Class D amp with Tube Preamp Combo? Bel Canto are never bloomy Jaspert. But your BCs are likely needing several hundreds hrs of real playing time (probably 500 to 1000) before stabilizing. . . . Turn on the tuner and let the creatures make music for a spell. . . and it may very well... | |
| class d Hi Rafael, I was hoping that we would be able to move this side discussion to another thread so not to highjack this one, but it looks there are already a few answers to your post. . . so moving to a different venue is no longer as clean an option... | |
| class d Dpac996, are you sure you are not generalizing a little prematurely? You have owned one switching amp which you did not like, and you're concluding that no switching amps can be of your liking? I have heard several amps that I disliked in class D,... | |
| class d "That would sum it up for me. I'm a big SET fan. The only one that has done it for me is the Red Wine Audio 30.2."That's exactlhy the problem Onemug. . . there is nothing to sum up. Like with every other technology, some class D amps will be of yo... | |
| Class D amp with Tube Preamp Combo? Stltrains, what is your amp+pre combo exactly? Guido | |
| class d Hi Coffeey, as I have written abundantly elsewhere about what I have like in switching amps. . . I'll cover some of my less memorable experiences. Heard the little Flying Mole monoblocks 2 years ago at RMAF. . . fuzzy, sterile, and forgettable, ex... | |
| roland 501's vs ps audio gcc 500 One of the advantages of the JRDG 201 and 501 monos is that they accept the external JRDG PC1 power factor correction and rectifier units. These add on devices -- that you can add later on -- are said to bring the performance of these two amps muc... | |
| Class D amp with Tube Preamp Combo? Hi Dave, the different and hotter running PFC circuit in the new Continuum 500 integrated may account for shorter break in time than on 300 series stereos, as well as JRDG monos without PFC like 201 and 501. In general, I prefer to be conservative... | |
| Class D amp with Tube Preamp Combo? Hi Larry, yes the device was very likely a 302. I have heard it a couple of times, driven by an aRC Ref 3 in both occasions. 302 was JRDG 1st gen switching amp with internal PFC. . . not bad for a first attempt, but I also observed some of the pro... |