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| ICE Amps for classical music? Not all BEl Cantos may work equally well with the tube pre-amp. A bad match here might account for what was heard.Also, I believe power supply implementations are different in different BC models and could make a difference.I can say for certain t... | |
| MBL speakers My gut feel is I'd think twice before running a hard to drive design like mbl off any integrated amp if your goal is optimal performance and sound. I think you will pay a hefty premium to find one that can work really well versus separates. That's... | |
| Any better DAC then dCS Scarlatti? Well for that price I suppose it should be! | |
| With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you Having heard mbls and liking them and also having owned OHMs for years now, if I had the means and the proper room to house them, I'm not sure I would jump from OHM to mbl either. I'd probably use the money elsewhere (like to build a bigger better... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? I'm very happy with the mhdt DACs as well. These also do no upsampling.I do not regard up-sampling as categorically bad however. It can be hit or miss depending on how done like most things. | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? "Mapman,What are you using for speakers and pre into the Bel canto's."Pre-amp is Audio Research sp16.Speakers are OHM Walsh 5 Series 3, OHM 100 Series 3, OHM L and Dynaudio Contour 1.3 mkii.All are shown in my system listing.Each speaker pair is i... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? "a great class D amp requires great everything else"I have no data points to weigh in on this in that the class D amp was the last upgrade I did once I felt everything else was in order.My gut feel is that the Bel Canto Ref1000mkii will not be the... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Interesting I know of one case of a discerning A'goner who is also a recording industry professional I believe that used Bel Canto ref1000's to drive at first Apogee and later Avangarde Trios in their system, with a high degree of satisfaction. Th... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? Are there any amps that publish specs regarding 1 ohm loads?Not sure how common that is these days. The market must be quite limited. | |
| Another "help me pick speakers" thread "I was wondering if you meant, because the speakers wouldn't be broken-in (although, both of my sets are used). Or, if you were referring to how your brain expects to hear songs a certain way, and hearing something "different" might be mistaken fo... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality "If you are going to use a PC for a "high quality" digital front end, you really should not be doing D/A in it. Send the PCM stream to an external Firewire or Asynchronous USB based DAC. That way nothing needs a clock till it gets from the memory ... | |
| ICE Amps for classical music? They work in all departments for classical music.I've found a tube pre-amp to be a very good fit however I looked specifically for an ICEPower based amp that implemented higher input impedance than stock ICEPower modules which are 10K ohms I belie... | |
| has anyone heard both Bel Canto and W4S amps? I'm guessing more of a sideways move, at least if used with a SS pre-amp. The 60K input impedance of the Wyred compared to 10K on that particular Bel Canto unit might benefit if you are using a tube pre-amp. | |
| Another "help me pick speakers" thread Ron,The area where the less than optimal tube amp matching with the OHMs would likely evidence itself be in the bass levels and perhaps also correspondingly unnatural brightness, the things you describe. That could be part of what you are hearing.... | |
| External hard drives and sound quality Herman,I have some evidence to support my "hypothesis".I have used internal, external USB, and wireless NAS storage and I have heard no differences. Nor do I hear a difference having used three different computers as music servers.I do hear differ... |