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

Most manufacturers will not list the 1 ohm operation for liability reason, but for those of us who venture there we know the ones that can. According to Murlman his can and i do know Henry has a 1 ohm scinnie himself.
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kijanki
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Weseixas - So I understand that in general case manufacturer of the module and maker of the amplifier says that this amplifier is not guaranteed to perform with less than 2 ohm and we know that some speakers are exception.

Manufacturer does not recommend using amp for load impedances lower than 2ohm. We could keep guessing why (damage to amp, damage to speakers, not holding other spects etc.) but to me 2ohm is min. I also understand that Muralman has limited choice of amps capable of driving 1 ohm speakers so he tried Icepower and as I understand was very successful.
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Well Muralman comments were interesting to me , as i also have to drive a 1 ohm ribbon and have limited choices.
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mapman
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Are there any amps that publish specs regarding 1 ohm loads?

Not sure how common that is these days. The market must be quite limited.
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