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| Vandersteen 2ce with Marantz MA 500 monoblocks The McCormack DNA 1 runs at 150 WPC into 8 Ohms, 300 WPC into 4 Ohms. That's enough to power the 2ce's. | |
| Anyone successful in dealing with Tinnitus? I thought I might be getting it intermittently, until I realized it disappeared when I turned off a ceiling fan. | |
| I think I've made up my mind Pubul57, Perhaps the better question is why; don't high end manufacturers comply with the highly compatible pro standards? | |
| Vandersteen 2ce with Marantz MA 500 monoblocks I hope you don't mind me suggesting a third option: McCormack DNA 1, or even better two of them. | |
| Pass Labs A/B amps vs Class A amp and Actual Power Stickman, are you sure that the XA 100.5 maintains Class A bias (or something to that effect, as there has been discussion here on the technical classification as to whether Class A/AB and Class AB amps technically deliver any Class A bias(?))or i... | |
| Best Bass amp I never said the KSA 250 wasn't a good bass amp. What I said is that there are other Krells that are better bass amps. | |
| Best Bass amp Krell's excell at bass, but KSA-250 isn't one of Krell's best bass amps. | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Atmasphere, I suspect that some like; Jim Strickand of Acoustat, Roger Sanders of Sanders Sound Systems (formerly Innersound), Roger West of Sound Lab, Gayle Sanders of Martin Logan, Nelson Pass of First Watt, and Dave Wilson of Wilson Audio might... | |
| are subwoofers anti-audiophile? Drew, Thanks! It's funny how the longer one belives something the more firmly one believes it. Thanks for setting me straight. Live and learn. | |
| are subwoofers anti-audiophile? Drew,?! +/- ? | |
| are subwoofers anti-audiophile? Ericjcbrera, there are plenty for full range speakers available.Nandric, Stereophile is fixated on 20-20K because that's the limit of the recording mediums available to us. It is felt (ha!) that frequencies below 20 Hz such as the pedal tones of s... | |
| are subwoofers anti-audiophile? One could argue that only audiophiles should use subs. As has already pointed out, mating subs with standard speakers is a challenge. Who else besides an audiophile would be willing to spend the money and the time to do it right? After the expense... | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Mapman, Pubul57, it would seem to me that speakers with a benign phase angle and a higher impedance rating might be better served with tube amplification over ss amplification, that would loose power with an increasing impedance rating. | |
| Power output of tube amps compared to solid states Atmasphere, it's exactly here where we diverge. IME, speakers both objectively and subjectively vary more than other components, and have a more varied response in different rooms/setups. With that said, all the speakers I seem to prefer, work bes... | |
| Aging technology versus inevitably aging ears... I'm value oriented. Real quality tends to last. Most of my (well maintained) gear is over 20 years old. Is the new stuff better? Some yes, some no. It really comes down to costs. Is the new better stuff worth the extra costs? Not very often, at le... |