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What is best amp for Maggie 3.6R
Hello,If you search archive then you will see its Spectron Musician III SIgnature and all the reasons why (control, magic midrange, huge soundstage etc)All The BestRafael 
Which Class D Amp to Buy?
Why class D?Why not - Which amp to buy? 
Class-D amps - a different re view
"perhaps you can enlighten me as to how i might acquire the taste."...of life-like music reporduction I assume. Well, attend concerts of acoustic music.Good Luck in that 
Class-D amps - a different re view
"Unfortunately companies are racing for best specifications. I would advise to take specifications, promtly discart[sic] them and just listen."Hmmmmm.. these stupid people from Spectron wrote on their silly web site:" BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA YADDA... 
Class-D amps - a different re view
Kijanki: "Simontju, Amp is close to 95% efficient and does not have to be large to do so."1 - Even if efficiency would be 99.99% some heat would be generated and...dissipated somehow2 - No heatsinks! I am talking NOT about chasses of the amp or wh... 
Class-D amps - a different re view
Hello Art_t,"To be perfectly honest, I have heard listeners say that our (switching) amps sound "very tube-like".... and it is because in all probability they do. Most published measurments of switching amplifiers distortion patterns are very simi... 
Class-D amps - a different re view
Hello Kijanki.Excellent review of the review. I would point out only that"Have thermal dissipation limitations due to the small power module size which means that thermal dynamic variations are present in the performance with time"has a lot of sen... 
Class-D amps - a different re view
Hello,I would respectfully disagree with Atmasphere words, if not all then vast majority. Class D designers and manufacturers are not for iPod and such alhgough I will admit that Spectron, for example, is designing, now, amplifier with 50 watts rm... 
Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier
No, Guido, Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!No, No, No !!!!!RF leakage is very, very bad, I listen to my tuner, 10 inches from Spectron.I bet that Jeff Rowland also does not leakHugs and KissesSimon 
Is it possible ??? Musician II owners
Simple answer:1) Run regular speaker cable from Spectron regular binding posts to the speaker's bass module2) Run Remote Sense to the speaker's midrange/treble moduleGood luck 
Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier
Dear Guido,Yes, of course, Spectron has balanced output - its truly, not big deal.Dear Zaikesman.class D power module if anything its not IC chip and if they would be inexpensive then most if not all class D manufacturers would use them in FULLY b... 
Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier
Hello Zaikesman,"strikes me as making things sound as though there should be a bigger advantage to balanced output drive than it seems there probably really is, considering how only a minority of amps widely considered to be top-class employ the c... 
Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier
P====================Positives of Balanced Design===========================Hello Guido and Hello Sodapop. I think it would be unfair for me to ignore some positive aspects of balanced approach.When you use balanced approach in preamp you reject c... 
Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier
Hello Guido,I am not "may be " insider. In one of my first posts on this amp I stated in my disclaimer:( http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1180897750&openflup&8&4#8 )that I am in audio engineering consulting business an... 
Review: Spectron Musician III Signature Edition Amplifier
Hello Guido,OK, lets see what's are results: by using two ICE modules you can reduce your noise by square root of two or 41%. Sounds great but if your signal is about 110 dB and noise is 1 dB (barely audible and in most amps it is less) then it be...