Detail and Resolution, BUT with musicality and liquidity? EZ; Audionet.
Under 30k:Audionet Max amps
The Best: Audionet Heisenbergs
Also sounded great : Mola Mola Perca
and: WestmisterLab REI amps.
Power Amplifier - Maximum Resolution & Detail!
I am assuming some of you have experienced the following.... All else being the same in the chain, you replaced a power amplifier and started hearing more resolution and detail, perhaps a lil more in a track that you have heard a thousand times.
Ime, the higher you go up in price doesn't necessarily guarantee that you could experience the above mentioned. It seems to come down to the nitty gritty of the circuits under consideration, i.e., the black art of power delivery and analog circuit design.
What is a power amp you may have experimented with that provided the maximum detail and resolution at any price? (Not just perceived changes in tonal balance, etc).
I am hoping to shortlist a power amp based on some suggestions here for a future purchase.
P.S. If you are an ASR type of guy who thinks all power amps sound the same, this may not the right thread for you, I suppose...
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@audiodwebe , back in the ’90s I used to work with a guy who bought a pair of them. He described them as sounding three dimensional, but he was known for hyperbole and embellishment. I never did make it over to his place to listen to his system, but now I wish I would have. I know that Cary used to say that those amps would drive just about anything. (There have been some discussions as to whether all watts are created equal, but if what Cary said about the ability of those watts to drive any speakers, that would make me think that those were some pretty good watts.) |
@deep_333 That is true. A factory has all sorts of QC in place, which only makes sense if you are making a bunch of them. For a short run, it's easier just to troubleshoot individual units. But chassis volume is at a premium, and hand-work, like wiring a discrete volume control, is pretty much out of the question for a factory. Since the best components, especially caps, tend to be bigger, there is often no way to shoe-horn the best components into place. So DIY can involve new chassis, and with that, new capabilities and controls which only you care about. It's very much a custom solution - but I thought that if President Carter can make his own furniture, I would try my hand at my own audio. |
Streamer/software/ddc whatever -'> conducive transport for detail creation dac ---> detail 'creation' dac output stage, preamp --'> hopefully, it is preserved cables --> hopefully, it is preserved power amp --> higher probability of a possible bottleneck/choke point pethaps for letting it through, imo i have some ways of dealing with stuff upstream of the poweramp, not that worried about the same. The use case is not just for hifi listening. There is a 'hifi' speaker I've been recently using as a monitor as well, recording some things, etc...Hence,...a quest to mitigate any power amp bottleneck, w.r.t the above mentioned (could be in vain...could be not). But, there have been some interesting suggestions thus far.
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Musical Fidelity A1. Class A solid state. 35wpc claimed. I have the 2008 version; it is an integrated but I will often use it in HT mode to bypass as much of the integrated preamp circuitry as possible. Having said that, I run it with any of 5 different sets of speakers, the best for detail being my Reference3A DeCapo I speakers. Synergy is an important factor in speaker/amp combinations of course. Runs too hot for the summers here in Sin City though. I tried placing wet rags on the top of the chassis which is also the heat sink, but it was too much trouble to keep the cloth sufficiently damp without dripping water into the electronics :) Sublime sound though!
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