guidocorona
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| High End Amp Price Collapse musings "It’s good to hear that $58K amps sound incredible, but at that price, they better. I don’t think that such a price range is really the heart and soul ofthe market place."You are right the "heart and soul" of the marketplace is not at the $60K ran... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings All, Over the last 30 years, I have owned a variety of high end amps, running in low bias class A/B (Aragon 4004), high bias class A/B (Rowland M7, M625, M725), and class D (Rowland M312, M925). My current amps are the $58K Rowland M925 monos whic... | |
| Class D Technology Hi seanheis1, I am not sure what circuit components are most prone to evolving during break-in.... I suspect that it is just about everything, from resistors, caps, boards, conducting traces, grounding surfaces, connectors, dyelectrics.... Accordi... | |
| Class D Technology Hi UberWaltz, Bel Canto Ref500 is not one of my favorite amps... Even when it was current technology, it lacked the sweetness and transparency of its more powerful REF1000 Mk.2 brother.On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that ICEpower-based ... | |
| Class D Technology Hi Tim, I will verify with Dennis if the M3/1500 monos are based on Pascal X-pro1 or X-Pro2.About Rowland,Continuum S2 integrated contains Pascal M-Pro2.The flagships M825 stereo and M925 monos contain NCore NC1200.Daemon integrated is the only Ro... | |
| Class D Technology Given the power rating, the module of the D-Sonic 3/3000 is probably the Pascal X-pro2. There is also a mono version of this amp, called 3/1500M, probably based on Pascal X-Pro1. See:http://www.d-sonic.net/products/mono/Cost of D-Sonic 3/1500M is ... | |
| Class D Technology Hi Mitch2, my PFO article on Veritas details all the technical information that I have gathered on Veritas, based on conversation with Merrill, and by reading the publicly available technical literature on the amp. See:http://positive-feedback.com... | |
| Class D Technology If it weren't for efficiency & power, would there be any reason to own a Class D amp? Do they beat Class A in any other categories that count for soundquality?""Let me try to respond to the question posed by the OP in the crispiest way I can:1... | |
| Class D Technology Hi George, I am amongst those who cannot hear any displeasing high freequency artifacts or limitations in some -- and by no means not all -- class D amps in current production. I would include at least:Rowland M925 and 825 (both based on NC1200),... | |
| Class D Technology Hi Richard, actually what the performance comparison between CS2 and the M625S2+Corus combo highlights is that the latter com bo was designed to a price point Three times higher than Continuum S2, and that it contains circuit sophistications not p... | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? Hello Cerrot!My own experience points to DAC+pre vs DAC alone is a question which can have multiple valid answers.... I also used the Rowland Criterion, fed by the Rowland Aeris DAC. Amps were, and still are, the Rowland M925 monoblocks.I must say... | |
| Class D Technology Hi RSA, you are safe with Bel Canto... Like Merrill Audio, Rowland, Theta, and D-Sonic, they are reported to make make wonderful amps. Several years ago I review the now withdrawn Bel Canto REF1000 Mk.2 monos for PFO.... Here is the article:http:/... | |
| Class D Technology Hi keeponrockin, it is fabulous that you had an exceptional experience with the Leviathan.Admittedly, I audition Leviathan several times at length, using my standard test tracks of piano, chamber, jazz/Krall, orchestra, and sax/vocalists, but only... | |
| Class D Technology Hi all, in olden days, with the NuForce and M312, RF leaks were of some concern... My old FM tuner did pick up hash from the amplifiers if when held less than 2 feet from the power supply of the amps. However, newer amps like the Merrill Veritas a... | |
| Class D Technology WOops... You are correct George: Theta Prometheus is indeed based on full NCore1200, not on the lower end NC500 module... My bad!!!!G. |