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| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Johnb30:That's not the way it works. Again, every time there is a fortissimo passage, the speakers can draw far in excess of 80 or 160 watts, and the amp operates in Class AB. For pop or orchestral played at "normal" volumes, this happens all the ... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Johnb30:Even at normal listening levels, peak signals can pull far in excess of 80 watts, which gives you the crossover distortion problems of AB operation. Full Class A operation has a lot of practical disadvantages (very high electricity consump... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? Charles1Dad: I see that you are running Coincidents - I recently put Total Victory IV's into my system and am very happy with them.Johnb30: The Pass amps are very good, but for a lot less money, the Parasound JC-1 monos are a very good sounding hi... | |
| Sonus Faber Stradivari amp: X600.5 or X1000.5 ? The Strads are very sensitive, 92 db.+ and there is therefore no reason to use a high-powered amp with them, unless you listen at extremely loud sound pressure levels, in which event it makes no sense to use Strads (while they go plenty loud, they... | |
| Got Vienna Acoustics Mahler speakers - what amp? If you like ProAcs, you'll like the basic sound of the Mahlers - they are rich and smooth. The Mahlers have slow, thick bass, however, and the Sim amp will only be average at controlling the woofers - the Sim, to its credit, is a no-global feedbac... | |
| Tube amp advice Deltatrippers:These days, a dip to 3.7 Ohms in the bass is almost considered moderate given how many speakers drop below 3 Ohms (and even down to 2 or below). To answer your question, the problem with most tube amps driving speakers featuring larg... | |
| Tube amp advice Deltatrippers:I intended to make a comment in response to your post, but forgot. I ran the original Revel Salons for three years and at least with respect to the original Salon, believe that the standard advice about powering the speaker at the ti... | |
| Tube amp advice A final comment - one reason older tube amps are so desirable is that the output transformers in tube amps take forever - years - to fully break in. This is one large advantage five to ten year old amps have over new ones. Although beside the poin... | |
| Mechanical buzz coming from the chassis What Viridian said. They generally all hum, but some more than others. My tube amp is totally silent, but it is the exception. | |
| Tube amp advice There's a fair amount of misunderstanding about tube amps and what distinguishes a good one from everything else. To drive speakers that feature low impedences in the bass, a tube amp's wattage rating is largely irrelevant - what matters is the qu... | |
| Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player High-end CD players, and I emphasize "high-end", no, their days are not over and they will continue to be available because enough audiophiles with CD libraries will be willing to pay the premiums necessary to justify their manufacture in very sma... | |
| how close in sound can a tube and ss amp sound ? Agreement. My Rowland Model 6's sounded, and my darTZeel sounds, quite similar to my VAC Renaissance amps, but not identical. There are strengths to each design. I should also add that my darTZeel has not been retrofitted for the improved biasing ... | |
| Can you overpower a speaker To Elevick's suggestion, it's great if you are using speakers with high-order crossovers and it will certainly give you the impression of more horsepower and protect your primary speakers, but if you are running speakers with simple first-order cr... | |
| Can you overpower a speaker The above posters are correct that you can overpower a speaker - if you hear the voice coils bottom out, which creates a smacking sound like someone hitting a metal plate with a hammer, then you've dialed in too much power and have to reduce the v... | |
| Silent Running Audio vs Minus-K under tube amps I'm not a scientist and can't respond to your question. All I can add is that one or more of the principals of Silent Running Audio allegedly (I emphasize "allegedly") used to supply isolation technology for navigational instrumentation employed i... |