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| Good SS Amp for Vandies 2 Ce I think you would be hard pressed to do better than the Quicksilver V4s to match up with the VSs. I think Richard used them for many years. I think they are 120 watts with the KT88s - that is a lot of tube power. But, I do think you already have p... | |
| Short List of the Best 20K Speakers The V5As are excellent and extremely good bass performance, especially with the ability to "tune in" thew bass to the room, not sure even they do 20Hz, not do I think that should be the goal of a speaker. It would be easier to answer the question ... | |
| Audio Research Amp Shootout I would be surprised if anyone has actually ever done that comparison, especially with your speakers. That Belles combo sounds like a pretty good one. I would be surprised if it was a major, clear cut improvement - your gear is pretty good. | |
| Short List of the Best 20K Speakers Why the focus on 20Hz? Seems like there would be far more important aspects of speaker performance than that, at least for 99.8% of music. | |
| Audio Research Amp Shootout Yup, some speakers need SS to sound their best, and some simply work better with tubes. The Ars Sonum intregrated would be a great match with your Merlins if you are ever looking to try a different combination. I'm not sure why, but the EL34 tube ... | |
| Audio Research Amp Shootout I appreciate the time and effort you spent to run these amps and provide your impressions. I'm not sure I necessarily agree with Eee3 that going up the price point ladder means better sound, it does generally mean more power and with speakers that... | |
| $8oo dollar budget Agree with Tvad, tubes will have trouble driving those speakers becuase of the impedance dip and swings and maintaining balance from highs to lows. That B&K is a pretty good amp for driving those speakers. I love tubes and only use them in my ... | |
| Affordable SS Integrated for Merlin TSMs No question tubes are the way to go (EL34s especially, or OTLs), but OP wants an SS option, and at a relatively low price point. You may be right about the Rotel/Merlin combo. I've not heard the AA Pucinni, but Bobby seemed to like it; if you coul... | |
| Affordable SS Integrated for Merlin TSMs I agree the Merlins would sound best with an EL34 based tube amp, but if SS is the way you want to go, at that price point, I always thought the Rotel gear was a good value and they seem to upped the build quality of there chassis and front panels... | |
| looking for circa $5k full range towers The Merlin VSMs are my favourite speakers, but not sure what you mean by full range. A speaker with even more bass (if that is what you mean by full-range) presence would be a used pair of Vandersteen Quattros. In a room your size, I think the Mer... | |
| Merlin vsm question Indeed the Merlins are intended for tubes. So much so that at one point Bobby had a "tube" version and and "ss" version of the speaker. To me, the Merlins are unforgiving in the sense that they will let you hear your amp and it doesn't candy-coat ... | |
| Merlin vsm question That is a very difficult question to answer. A lot of perceived bass is really above 50Hz, and some impressive bass is often exgerated bass with an artificial bass bump. Now some people like that and associate it with powerful bass. On acoustic in... | |
| Merlin vsm question Atmasphere, did not say it, and I have used my Merlins MXes with QSV4s and they are very fine amps indeed, but the Atma-sphere M-60s are the best I have heard with the Merlins, at least for my taste. Since you use the word refined, I have no doubt... | |
| An honest opinion about upgrading? Room treatment is one of the last things I did. It should not have been. Given the level of your equipment, I would learn as much as I could about room treatment, at least for bass control in the corners and some side reflection treatment. Much ch... | |
| Tube amp selection- for Magnepan 1.6QR Bob_reynolds, if I'm reading those specs right, it doesn't seem like the 1.6 is ideally suited for most tube amps. Just seems like you need a lot of power and current to drive them well, they just seem better suited for SS. Of cousre, there is the... |