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| ARC Ref 210 or Ayre MXR with Wilson Maxx2 I have a very good friend who runs the 200 watt Audio Research Reference monoblock amps with Wilson Maxx II's in a purpose-built room. His other equipment is the Audio Research Reference 5 preamp and Reference 7 CD player, with very good Transpare... | |
| Help My Nautilus B&W 804's 'pop' at loud volumes. The 804's are not an appropriate speaker for loud listening - they are like a small bookshelf speaker, with an extra small driver. Based upon what you've written, it sounds like you've damaged a driver or the crossover in one speaker. If I were yo... | |
| How Much Difference Does a More Powerful Amp Make? Bombaywalla:I was trying to keep it simple to make a point. Most amps, powerful or not, have anywhere from three to five gain stages (very few have two), and we all know that using global feedback with such designs makes the amp builder's job a lo... | |
| How Much Difference Does a More Powerful Amp Make? It's interesting that no one has yet discussed the downsides to powerful amplifiers, as they are significant.If a person is running an inefficient speaker (let's say 85 db. or less) or one that requires significant current due to low impedances in... | |
| Bryston 4B-ST I owned one for five years. While a 4B-ST is a lot of solid-state amp for the money, it has the kind of power supply you would expect of an analog amp that weighs only 45 lbs. I saw mine crap out (solid red lights indicating heavy clipping) into a... | |
| Best Pre with a built-n phono section? The CAT preamps are very, very good tube units, and I believe that the Legend is currently the best iteration (I owned a Mk. III many years ago).Sound quality aside, downsides are excessively high output, which reduces the range on the volume cont... | |
| Atma Sphere S30-Whats the best Power Tube? Ralph Karsten (AtmaSphere) contributes to Audiogon threads all of the time - his Audiogon user name is "Atmasphere" - you should ask him. | |
| Best ARC Solid State power to match ARC Ref 5 Pre Bywynne:If you have the opportunity, try to get a darTZeel, Ayre, Rowland 625, or no-feedback triode tube amp into your system to compare to your ARC. There are indeed a lot of different factors that affect amplifier performance, but some are more... | |
| Best ARC Solid State power to match ARC Ref 5 Pre ARC's preamps can be very, very good, but their amps are quite overrated in my opinion - they all use copious amounts of global feedback, whether tube or solid-state, and while generally transparent and resolving, feature the closed-in dead qualit... | |
| pre-amp with phono section The CAT preamps are very, very good tube units. Sound quality aside, downsides are excessively high output, which reduces the range on the volume control with sensitive amps (e.g., 9 O'Clock position is already loud and 11 O'Clock is super loud), ... | |
| Best Integrated amp for Wilson Audio Sasha "So who needs this?" It was the author of the thread who asked about darTZeel - it was not an unsolicited recommendation. PS - Lange is a German, not Swiss, watchmaker. | |
| Best Integrated amp for Wilson Audio Sasha Dear Keith: I would agree that darTZeel may have chosen to deliberately omit that review, as they surely know that the majority of audiophiles, even some relatively sophisticated ones that might be expected to gravitate toward an esoteric product ... | |
| Best Integrated amp for Wilson Audio Sasha Dear Keith:The darTZeel integrated was subject to a full review by Stereophile - here is the link: http://www.stereophile.com/integratedamps/dartzeel_cth-8550_integrated_amplifier/index.htmlThe Sasha was also reviewed by Stereophile and subject to... | |
| Best Integrated amp for Wilson Audio Sasha In fact, you would absolutely not want a "higher power" amp, whether it be a power amp or integrated amp, if you have reasonably efficient speakers, and certainly not on a 91+ db. efficient speaker like the Sasha, as the vast majority of such amps... | |
| Best Integrated amp for Wilson Audio Sasha Keithr: The darTZeel integrated is stable into 2 Ohm loads and outputs 450 watts into this impedance. The power supplies on it are very stiff, which should come as no surprise given its considerable cost (I think the integrated is now something li... |