Onhwy61 I think you need to get out more as live music is fast without "sounding" fast.....This is a real trick to reproduce in solid state gear, some can, but most can't.....The odd order higher harmonics normally make the slam come across as hard sounding if the musical peak takes the SS amp out of it's Class A region....The solution is to allow more Class A, enough for the musical peaks.....BEAR runs the Symphony No. 1 to about 40w Class A and we run the JC-1s to almost 30w Class A....Using 89 dB efficient speakers neither amp gets out of Class A on peaks and is one reason that the line between tube and solid state has become blurred in the past decade.....
amplifier's "slam-factor"
I wonder if anyone can explain me why there are differences in the so called "slam-factor" between different amplifiers (with comparable power ratings). It is well known that for example Krell amplifiers have a high slam-factor, while Mark Levinson amplifiers are quite tame in comparison, even the most powerful ones (> 300 watts per channel). Spectral amplifiers are very fast regarding signal amplification and transmission, but I find them not very "powerful" sounding (high slam-factor), assuming speed is one of the factors which determine whether an amplifier has a high slam-factor or not.
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