I used to own Rogue equipment I've had integrated amps and I've had separates including the par-5 and the stereo 90 love the lab right now I own the pass lab int-60 and I am getting the best sound I have ever heard so my following is solid state
Would switching amps make a big difference?
I've been using a Belles 21a tube pre and a pair of PrimaLuna Prologue Sevens with Martin Logan Ethos speakers for the last 6 years and it sounds good. I'm pretty stuck in tube land. But does it get better?
I was wondering if a Raven Osprey Integrated amp or the Lyngdorf TDAI-2170 or another amp, ideally integrated could elevate and sound even more, around same price of $5k - which if I went ahead is about what my current amp setup should bring me.
Then there is the idea of switching to the Martin Logan ESL Impression 11a...
Thoughts? Suggestions?
I was wondering if a Raven Osprey Integrated amp or the Lyngdorf TDAI-2170 or another amp, ideally integrated could elevate and sound even more, around same price of $5k - which if I went ahead is about what my current amp setup should bring me.
Then there is the idea of switching to the Martin Logan ESL Impression 11a...
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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I think you would achieve much more bang for the buck by changing out your preamplifier. Give the deHavilland UltraVerve a shot, at the very least you will have a preamplifier you can keep for life. I have spent time with your current preamp and with the UltraVerve so not speaking out of school. Below is my room at the show. “Though I've heard the Wilson-Benesch Curve floorstanders many times before, I found that they sounded spectacularly good as driven by Kara Chaffee's amazing deHavilland tube electronics . Nothing I heard at RMAF, save perhaps for the far more expensive Vandersteen/ARC system, could touch this rig for sheer midrange purity, detail, three-dimensionality ." Chris Martens TAS on the 2009 show. |
Wow, I've gotten a ton of useful ideas here to my question and am thinking of starting with the Zero-Autotransformers which should solve the Martin-Logan / amp speaker compatibility issue. Next question is, if I were to replace my admittedly old Belles 21a preamp - thoughts on the following 4 preamps? > deHavilland UltraVerve > Backert Labs Rumba > Don Sachs > Linear Tube Audio |
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