You want the TRUTH from those Wilson Alexia's, maybe you can't handle the TRUTH

@mapman

No, I didn't say 10 watts was enough. What I meant was that too often reviewers focus on things like S/N at maximum output. If you have a 700 Watt amplifier, it may have a better S/N than a 100 watt amp, but in my house could be 4 times noisier. These are just examples.

I am not a small amp guy. I just meant, these big ass amps seem impressive just because of the output power. I'm more interested in an amplifier that plays exceedingly well with vanishingly low noise within the power envelope I use.

Best,


Erik

And the there's the really affordable McIntosh MC2KW mono blocs.

I wonder is there any room left to squeeze a supercharger? Sure I get it, but since the energy it makes wasn't designed to turn gears putting a horsepower rating on an amplifier seems a bit too gimmicky to me.   

I wonder is there any room left to squeeze a supercharger? Sure I get it, but since the energy it makes wasn’t designed to turn gears putting a horsepower rating on an amplifier seems a bit too gimmicky to me.

Try driving a pair of Wilson Alexia’s < .9ohm or XLF’s and others, then you’ll need something like this, to get the best out of them.
And lets face it, if you buy these >$50k speakers you want to hear the TRUTH and not compromise them with weaker amps that can’t pump out that kind of current.

Cheers George

Be prepared to get your electrical service upgraded! 200 W panel just for your hifi; same for your video system! 3rd one for the rest of the house; did I forget the home office? Solar City eat your heart out!