Rowland 8TiHC vs. Lamm M1.1

Jmr, I am also considering a Lamm 1.1 or a Rowland 8TiHc. Recently I have been also looking at the MC6 by Rowland. It allows you to vertical bi-amp and gives you an 8Ti in a more flexible package. Has anybody heard anything about the MC6 - good or bad? I think Glide is right - they are both great amps. Glide could describe a little bit the sound of each amp. Is the Lamm significantly different sounding than Rowlands?

Forget the amps. Go back to third grade english.

Chriskh - Yes. Please do excuse my english. It was late at night when I posted and half a sleep.

Dan, just ignore this Chriskh guy. The MC6 is what Rowland is trying to push, however there are a couple of things I dislike. The MC6 does'nt have the gain selector switch that models 8 have. I find this specially usefull since I run my Wadia directly into the amp.,if you use a preamp this should'nt be a concern. Also I ca'nt help thinking that all those speakers posts and all the internal bridging which very usefull for multichannel aplications may represent sonic compromises when it comes to stereo use.

Jmr, You made an interesting observation about the MC6. One thing that JRDG mentioned over the phone was the reason why the 8TiHC sounds better than the 8Ti is that there are more output devices and so each device is less "stressed." I believe (I need to clarify this with JRDG) the MC6 has the same number of output devices as the 8TiHC. If you are correct in your argument then the 8TiHC should sound better than the MC6 in a two-channel application. I am not sure if the 8Ti would sound better than the MC6. I am guessing, but I bet they would sound very similar. The MC6, 8Ti and the 8TiHC all share the same power supply. Cheers, Dan