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| Narrowing on suitable amp for Martin Logan CLX "I have heard all but Berning Quadrature"How about starting out with your impressions of the various combos in question? There is another thread going on about ML and tube amps whose posters might be interested in your findings. I am.Thanks. | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Someone should sign up to do a "paradigm" shootout, ie the best of voltage versus the best of power paradigms. Of course, finding an unbiased doer or doers for something like this could be the hardest part. I would volunteer someday, perhaps after... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers "In otherwords it will do the classic thing that can happen with low current or high output impedance tube amps "behave like a fixed tone control" instead of being flat into all loads."That's a very interesting analogy!I suppose, its a question of... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers Its funny how there are always two ways to look at good sound.1) technical2) practical/case by caseNothing guarantees each perspective will resulting the same choices/solution. Why should they each case is different even if for no other reason tha... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers "Hence, based on what Al explained, using a tube amp which has a "high'ish" output impedance will likely result in sonic coloration to some degree."Yep. The specs give you guidelines but cannot answer what sounds best in each case. The key part is... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers An amp that can double down to half an ohm gotta be the bomb! | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? No doubt toe in/out will effect air in any speaker, but more so with OHMs in standard setup where tweeter is normally facing/toed-in 45 degrees. Sounds like your buddy has good ears!My Dynaudio monitors also tend to have more "air" than the OHMs i... | |
| Top 10 Snafus to avoid when building a good rig " In the current issue of Stereophile one of the writers states that "it's good enough" is the most dangerous thought in audiophile land."There is a big difference between the audio sales guy who asks questions and actually takes time to understan... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers I don't know what designers intended for certain, but I suspect SS amps all the way. ML is pretty mainstream and tube amps and speakers that work best with them is way more of a niche market.The best ML demos I have heard was off a Krell integrate... | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers My understanding is low impedance in treble region does not present nearly as much of a challenge as same in bass in that exponentially less power is needed for flat treble response. I think that is the main reason why tube amps can do well with t... | |
| Audiophile newbie Have not heard Xeo but have never heard bad sounding Dynaudio and the Xeo design makes things very easy it would seem. Nice product! | |
| Album which you have listened to most? Moonglum,You sound like a kindred spirit. Big Camel/Latimer fan here. My kids even like Stationary Traveller. | |
| Audiophile newbie Yuppies are so 80's/Reagan era.What is the modern equivalent of a yuppie then?Do all smart phone owners qualify? | |
| Tube Amp for Martin Logan Speakers YEs, but realize that tube amps in general will distort even more than SS amps into 4 ohms, so if 4 ohms is part of teh puzzle, the answer is clear.Any good amp, SS or otherwise can drive an easy load easier.SO you have to look at all the pieces o... | |
| Audiophile newbie YEah, gotta know what your source is/will be.Unless you have an existing library of music in some other format to use, like vinyl or tape for example, then digital is the place to be these days for starters.You can use an existing computer as your... |