newtoncr...
I heartily suggest that you seek a Belles amplifier for your 2.4’s. If you search on the shark you’ll find a couple 150A amplifiers for sale as well as a few of his preamps. If the amps are in good shape, and if they’re anywhere near as good as my 250i Integrated, you’ll discover something remarkably focused on the types of music you enjoy. Those amps hover around $650 - a “Thiel-like” bargain.
Now, why am I so smitten with Belles?
While I don’t have the ability to conduct an A/B live comparison, 20/20 hindsight and impressions that have remained with me since experiencing them whisper Pass Labs - sans the price of entry. My Belles 250i Integrated provides me with all the clean, articulate sonics that my Pass X150.5 amplifier did - at that time for me it was a match made in heaven.
David Belles now makes Power Modules products - they have a website. David is in his eighties and stopped making high powered amplifiers because he couldn’t move them around like he used to. He actually answers the phone, too.
Over the years i have bought many pre-owned speakers, amps & preamps without the benefit of a live audition. With Thiel being the sole exclusion, most of the other hardware’s manufacturers are still in business, producing new products. Most offered some degree of assistance on their “legacy”, discontinued models. Most of the time those of us who discovered Thiel did so on the pre-owner market - which is a fairly risky way to purchase something that can be subjected to abuse. I never heard a Thiel model before I wired ‘em into my setup. I’ve never been disappointed, either.
Belles philosophy complements Thiel’s. Articulate, uncolored, accurate. Worth your while checking it out if you’re able.
