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ICE Amps for classical music?

I listen to classical orchestral music at heavy volume. I detest reproduced music for always sounding more or less electronic and not acoustic. Real music is beautiful in a way reproduced music--so far at least-- never is. I have become curious about Wyred4sound amps because of low price and high watts. I am wondering if any of you "mostly classical" listeners have heard these amps and feel they do no more damage to music than amps which are NOT ICE amps. I am using a Plinius SA100 now and have used a VAC 100/100,
a Bedini Classic 100/100, a Music Reference RM-9, and other tube and solid state amps. They all had their pluses and minuses, of course, but for least electronic, clearly the Bedini was the winner. So what about ICE amps?
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dob
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Hello Muralman1,

What model of Henry Ho amplifiers you use to drive your 1 Ohm speakers?

Caps provide store energy only. Incidently, intial Spectron Musician III also has two or four huge caps. In next geberation they changed it to 100 smaller caps (10-12 times reducing ESR) and difference in sound was more then drramatic.

Ar any rate, I am interested if your amp has switching power supplies or it was based on traditional transformers. Also, switching power supplies are not digital. First Spectron class D amplifier in 1974 also was based on switching power supplies but they do notn use it in their audiophile products.

I visited Mr. Ho web site and he has there two type of power supplies driving the ICE output stage:

#1 M500 - Power Supply: Integrated Switching Mode; $3,000.00 USD a pair

#2 M250 - Power Supply: Integrated Switching Mode; $2.500.00 USD a pair

#3 S250 - Power Supply: Traditional Toroidal Transformer; $3,200.00 USD ea.

#4 M250SA - Power Supply: Traditional Toroidal Transformer;$6,000.00 USD a pair.

#5 S100 - Power Supply: Traditional Toroidal Transformer; $6,000.00 USD ea.

Thank you,

Simon
I would bet a treasure that it was the pair of MA250SA...
muralman1
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Kijanki, please, you should not make those statements unless you have witnessed the actual application of the 500A module loaded working on 1 ohm. Here is another eye wakener, the H2O can not only do 1 ohm, it is stable on a third of an ohm as well. That has been proven multiple times. H Ho has the 1000ASP module, and since, like me, he has the 1 ohm Scintilla, he knows which is better.
weseixas
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Henry has a 1 ohm scinnie , so i can see the amplifier being tailored for such a load .

Now my interest is peaked and definitely will have a listen to one. I know Bel canto has advised not to drive a 1 ohm load with there's.
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kijanki
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Muralman1 - I'm not sure what statements you're talking about. Please read again second sentence of my post.

Again - Icepower modules are not rated for 1ohm (min load 2 ohm) nor H2O amps are. If they work fine - all the better. I just stated specifications.
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kijanki
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Weseixas - "Henry has a 1 ohm scinnie , so i can see the amplifier being tailored for such a load."

If that's the case the why his products are specified 2ohm minimum load. Am I missing something?
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