Quietest amplifier you have ever owned.

How to determine if your system/component has sufficiently low noise? Simple. Play something at realistic (or desired volume) levels, then stop play and, at approximately half the distance that you normally listen to your system, listen and note if you hear any noise. Depending on your source, you might hear noise or not. If you don't hear any noise, great. If you do hear noise, also great, now you can start tweaking, which is what tweaking is all about, repairing an audible or perceived defect in the system.

inpepinnovations@aol.com - When you say all you have to do is start tweaking to correct a problem this doesn't tell me very much. Could you be more specific?

Bobgates, first of all, I didn't say "all you have to do is start tweaking". I said that all tweaking is attempting to repair a perceived or real problem in your system. Noise in a properly set up system is not usually a problem - just because you hear some noise when you have your ear right up to the speakers doesn't mean that you have a problem. Some do think that this is a problem and they will start "tweaking away", cables, amps isolation platforms ad nauseum. If you hear noise using the method that I have described it is most probably due to a bad front end set-up or matching with the power amp, with the pre-amp not doing it share of the level gain and using the power amp to do the bulk of the gain. This is especially critical with high sensitivity speakers.

I HAVE OWNED KRELL/LEVINSON/THESHOLD/VAC/ AUDIO RESEARCH
BAT/GRYPHON/ ROWLAND
WITH OUT A DOUBT THE ROWLAND HAS BEEN THE QUIETEST