You’ve now got to be joking!!, out of courtesy I didn’t mention which OTL’s wouldn’t drive these 89db JBL’s 1400’s, but now you leave me no option, they were a pair of your M60’s!!!!! and now your saying they’ll do a nice job on Wilson Alexia!!!MA-1s. Not joking- Wilsons have always been fairly efficient despite their impedance. They seemed to sound just fine to me. They played loud enough too but it was a smaller room IME. We also noted that particular customer was going through power tubes faster, which is no surprise since a lower impedance will cause more of the power generated by the output section to be dissipated in the output section- and that's hard on tubes. We finally got him to install a pair of ZEROs and then the tubes stopped failing, plus he had more power. The Wilsons traditionally have been fairly efficient so none of this should come as any surprise. The national sales manager at Wilson (John Giolas) had our amps for several years.
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We finally got him to install a pair of ZERO This is just trying to save face. Of course you did, an expensive band-aid fix, that will never get the best from the Alexia, instead of pointing him in the right direction for the right amp even at the cost of maybe an OTL sale. This Wilson Alexia "customer", was sold totally wrong amp for these speakers that have a pig of a load. That with the right amp eg: Gryphon Antilion and similar current pushing demons, will make them sing at all levels. I know as my friend Edgar Kramer owner of Soundstage Australia, owns a pair, and we’ve tried many amps on them, believe me "NO OTL" will drive them anywhere near their full potential, even with a Zero autoformer. https://www.soundstageaustralia.com/index.php/reviews/84-wilson-audio-specialties-alexia-series-2-loudspeakers John Atkinson Stereophile Test HiFi News Lab Report Now back on topic to the OP’s problem of driving his Thiel CS5’s which maybe an even worse/similar load as these Wilson Alexia’s. "Here's a thought!! maybe the OP needs some OTL’s"??????????? |
George who holds up the Levinson ML2 as the paragon of excellence for technical specs. This Stereophile’s JA’s statement, is the typical case where a 25w amp like the ML2’s with doubling capable wattage current will drive a pig of a load like these Alexia’s and the OP’s speaker "to a given level" with perfection better than any 3000w class-d can. John Atkinson Stereophile Test |
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