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| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Thanks for all the very helpful insights and comments! Based on those and other information, I ended up with the Hegel H95. Class A amplifiers were very tempting, but pricey and didn't fulfil the requirements for ease of use. Finally, it came down... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps @jdub39 thanks! How I'm feeling definitely affects this problem and I have allergies. That's a good point. I do have an air purifier in the bedroom and allergy medication at hand, I'll test out if I see a relationship between these things. | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Thanks @yyzsantabarbara for the propositions and sharing your experience. Those Krells look amazing and the integrated would be perfect. Unfortunately they are out of my price range currently. That's a pretty impressive amount of listening indeed... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps I can make a recommendation of a class AB amp that would work for you within your budget. I'm currently using a Bryston 4B SST2. I find it fatigue free. Thanks for sharing, great setup and great amp. If going the separates route, I'd unfortuna... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps I have concerns that any of these amplifiers will properly drive your speakers which are 4 ohm and recommend 40-200 watts to drive them. I had suggested in an earlier post that Class A might solve your problem, but sole focus on Class A at the ex... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Denafrips Hyperion I'll be ordering soon. I think I mentioned I have a Denafrips DAC and really like it, so I'd be open to options from that brand. Any particular reasons this amp could be a good option for what I'm looking for? The lack of a ... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Thanks @holmz! ;) You're completely right to question my choices and conclusions, that's often the most helpful thing to do. I do tend to overthink things as you can see, but it definitely doesn't mean I'm necessarily right. Since the OP is refe... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps It is indeed in part a sideways move and that's why I would ideally find a class AB solid state option. However, heat wasn't the only reason to move away from tubes. Other examples were the one-minute warm up time during which the amp is on mute,... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Here's where I'm at currently: I'm leaning toward class A, despite my worries about power consumption and heat. This is based on the hypothesis regarding transients and dynamics, but also other reasons, related to the distortion characteristics an... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps It occurred to me that my gear may have been experiencing microphonic induced distortion which can happen even at moderate volume. I was able to solve it with isolation pucks. In my case, Isoacoustic Oreos. Nordost sort Kones also worked well. E... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps ^I think we are making progress.^ Yes, thanks, that was a good suggestion regarding compressed music and I'll use that also when testing out amps. | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps If it is as you say, then I would think that it would show up more in music with has a high dynamic range, where the peak level would be much higher than the RMS level. And then on music that’s more compressed, we would not have the snare drum at... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps I misquoted the power on the Pass though. It’s 25 Wpc at 8 Ohms, 50 Wpc at 4. Thanks for the clarification @wlutke, 50 did sound a lot from what I remember about those Pass amps. My speakers are not the most efficient either, so not sure it w... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Pre-owned Parasound A21 amps can be found for ~$1200. Their distortion profile is primarily 2nd order, which is very rare among amps below $5K, and output enough power to provide plenty of headroom for nearly any speaker. Your argument is exact... | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps Thanks @holmz for the various very good points and suggestions. Just a clarification on one point, as this is one of the things I'm trying to understand here: I doubt that the amps are any “faster”, as most amps play 20kHz just fine, and nothing... |