tmcclintock
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| After 50 years, I have finally found my destination amps... AGD Audions! atmasphere06-15-2021 8:01am To be clear, Alberto does share a patent on GaNFETs (US8847408B2). And the modules he makes are of course designed for audio. But it appears to me that you've conflated the modules with the GaNFETs themselves, and th... | |
| Solid state amplifiers and sound stage, especially front to back "depth" hilde45 OP2,010 posts05-21-2021 9:05a....I have returned the amp. I'm open to suggestions.hilde45,I just in-home auditioned a pair of Valvet A4 monoblocks and kept them. They're solid state class A and compared favorably with my tube and other SS... | |
| Your tube preamp and ss amp thread Blue Circle Audio BCS 3000 and either AGD Audions (class D) or Valvet A4s (class A). | |
| AGD Audion GaN Class D In The House ricevs648 posts05-12-2021 6:48pmReally would be great if you guys did a blow by blow....I don't have the experience you and rh67 have, but here's where I'm coming from. Past amps - Threshold 400A, Acoustat tnt-120, tnt-200 (with Acoustat 2+2s), ... | |
| Class D amps that are superior to all or most? Another recommendation for AGD Audions. They're the best I've heard in my system and bested other Class Ds and a pair of Class A transistor amps. | |
| AGD Audion GaN Class D In The House I've just done a 14 day trial period of AGD Audions, with every intention of returning them if they weren't a significant improvement and good value over my existing amps. I even appreciated the Pelican case as making for an easy and safe return.... | |
| Break-in of a Class D amp? Was at least 100 hrs for mine and probably more like 200, although part of that may have been breaking in my ears to the quieter background and more clarity at the extremes. Sort of made the upper midrange seem shallower at first. Did you listen... | |
| Break-in of a Class D amp? To answer your original question, my ICEPower class D amps took quite a few hours to break in. I wouldn't say they gained detail but more like the highs smoothed and got clearer, so detail was more distinct. | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Re: "How do you search for a seller on eBay..."Upper right on eBay page, click "Advanced" to the right of the Search button, and scroll down to the Sellers section. Check the "Only show items from:" and "Specific sellers.." boxes and type the sell... | |
| General Initial Impressions--Genalex Gold Lion KT88 Reissue I replaced 4 KT120s in my amp with Gold Lion KT88s and like them much better. No downside - only up. | |
| Tube Physics Question Thanks, glassandlight. The part about not being able to adjust bias to the point spec'd for the 120s seems legitimate in my case and part of my original question. The 88s operate in their range, the 120s don't.As to what's physically different a... | |
| Tube Physics Question Thanks for the link, rcprince. A lot of what Kevin Hayes says went over my head, but a couple of his points maybe speak to what I heard."3) You should expect more distortion with the KT120, possibly particularly at moderately low listening level... | |
| Tube Physics Question Thanks for your responses. True, I don't know how much the KT120s have been used (likewise the KT88s), but was told they didn't have many hours on them. Second system, so I haven't put many on them. I didn't mention the amp manufacturer because ... | |
| Is it safe to A/B 2 different speakers using my int. amp's balance so I can compare? Yeah, but to answer OP’s question, I can’t see that it would hurt anything. Not as the sole way of testing/deciding, but it might be interesting to set the two side by side near the center, switch the amp to mono and listen for differences in tone... | |
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