pubul57
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| Best amp under $6k, in your opinion? Good options Tom. The Ayre especially has always interested in light of comments made by Ayre users. | |
| Powerful Tube Amp for SF Strads? The XA.5 series is the best SS I have heard, and their 30 watt amp should be more than enough to drive the SFs plenty loud in most rooms for most people - I think it is very conservatively rated at 30 watts. THe .5 iteration is much better at deli... | |
| McCormack Amp Upgrades I know there are other contenders, but in my experience, Pass amps are the finest SS available, and if not the "best" close enought to be the end game for many. If I had McCormack (very fine amps) and was considering an upgrade, I would wait till ... | |
| Tube Amp Recommendations Anthony, did you think the RM200 was as good as the RM9 in the midrange and other areas of performance? | |
| Thiel CS3.6 Amp Dal)wol, I'm not familiar with the Bryston, but I would be suprised if a passive could drive typical SS amps well because of their typically lowish input impedance (the Bryston might be different) - a weakening in the bass region is typical of an ... | |
| Holographic imaging TBG, you have a beautiful looking system, which I'm sure sounds wonderful - would love to hear it cuz I too have never been "fooled" into thinking a recorded performance sounds live (live-like yes), but if you system makes you feel that way, more ... | |
| Tube Amp Recommendations RM9 fans, had a chance to compare with the RM200? I think Roger stopped making the RM9 because of the cost of transformers he used in that series, was something lost? I have the Special Edition RM9 which is a little different, but its as a good an... | |
| Thiel CS3.6 Amp The Mac, Pass, or Classe's should work well with 200 watts. Which is best is a matter of taste, but they should all drive them well. | |
| Best amp under $6k, in your opinion? I think so to. I've tried, but SS just doesn't do it for me; although I realize that some speakers just can't sound there best with tubes and demand the use of SS, with the exception of a few high powered, high current tubes amps - which isn't nec... | |
| Holographic imaging Ralph, impact and authority as you describe it is a very good way to describe what I mean by dynamics and related it to that is what I call microdynamics (there might be a better word) which is the ability to resolve small changes in volume and sm... | |
| Best amp under $6k, in your opinion? Ck, I agree that tube amps certainly do not control the bass like an SS (maybe a CAT JL2)but no matter how much I try to enjoy SS, it never sounds real to me compared with tubes. I recently had the Pass XA30.5 and it does sound great on its own te... | |
| Holographic imaging Duke, I agree with you and what seems strange to me is the value we (me too) place on "holographic" effects in our stereos when they don't seem to be part of the live experience to my ears. I suspect the reason is that in live music you can see th... | |
| Holographic imaging I'll take timbral accuracy, dynamics and timing over holography/soundstaging any day - if I want to know what the musicians are saying (why they are on the stage). Ralph, is there any reason why the two may be mutually exclusive - that is, does th... | |
| Holographic imaging Norm, even with a temporary suspension of disbelief, reproduced music never sounds live to me; which doesn't mean it can't be very enjoyable and wonderful on it's own terms, but I'm never really fooled into thinking it is real no matter what equip... | |
| Holographic imaging I've been working on the assumption for a long time that the "Absolute Sound" was the goal of this hobby, but I sometimes wonder why that should necessarily be, isn't it just possible that equipment might convey music in a way that might be even m... |