@tattooedtrackman Nice to hear u have great results with the fpb600, what pre and source are you using? What about cabling? I use audioquest wild wood speaker cables
Ideal amp for B&W matrix 800
Hello everyone, I am looking for a great amp for my B&W MATRIX 800 speakers (the tall ones with the angular shaped bass cabinets, not the nautilus ones!).
I have a tight budget and live in Belgium.
My cd is Accuphase 500, preamp is solid state, no tone controls magnum Mp330.
I am looking for a 3d soundstage with lots of depth and emotional music playing. I therefore think of class A amps.
Hence... older krells? Tube amps would be a bad match as the speakers each have two 12 inch woofers. They are 4Ohms, with an impedance dip to 3 ohms in 100-200 Hz region. they are 93 dB/1W sensitivity though...
I could spend about 2000 euro but would prefer around 1000-1500 so I have budget for an accuphase preamp for phono (a c-280 or so). Would appreciate your input guys!
At the moment I localised a krell KSA-100 MKii for 850 e, a Krell KSA-200 S for 1750 e, a Krell FPB for 2000 e...
Or a Pass X250 for 2400 e.... Other suggestions are very welcomen these or just the ones that I found on sale some place now... I have never heard any of these amps...
I have a tight budget and live in Belgium.
My cd is Accuphase 500, preamp is solid state, no tone controls magnum Mp330.
I am looking for a 3d soundstage with lots of depth and emotional music playing. I therefore think of class A amps.
Hence... older krells? Tube amps would be a bad match as the speakers each have two 12 inch woofers. They are 4Ohms, with an impedance dip to 3 ohms in 100-200 Hz region. they are 93 dB/1W sensitivity though...
I could spend about 2000 euro but would prefer around 1000-1500 so I have budget for an accuphase preamp for phono (a c-280 or so). Would appreciate your input guys!
At the moment I localised a krell KSA-100 MKii for 850 e, a Krell KSA-200 S for 1750 e, a Krell FPB for 2000 e...
Or a Pass X250 for 2400 e.... Other suggestions are very welcomen these or just the ones that I found on sale some place now... I have never heard any of these amps...
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blueskywalker Ideal amp for B&W matrix 800 Between 55hz to 250hz (most of the bass) they have a load (impedance plus - phase angle) that demands current from an amp to get the best out of them. Amps that can almost double their 8ohm wattage to 4ohm and again to 2ohms. https://www.stereophile.com/images/archivesart/88B800fig1.jpg But because they are 94db efficient they don’t need a lot of watts an amp of 100watts into 8ohms will do, even the very old 25watt at 8ohm Mark Levinson ML2 monoblocks will sound great to a certain level because they can keep doubling wattage down to to 1ohm!!! https://img.ukaudiomart.com/uploads/large/2229206-mark-levinson-ml2.jpg Amps today that will be nice would be the Gryphon Diablo Integrateds 120 or the 300, they can do the doubling act. Also the D’Agostino’s , Parasound John Curl Halo’s, Krell’s these are all bi-polar output that can do big current down to 2ohms. https://gryphon-audio.dk/shop/integrated-amplifiers/diablo-120/ https://gryphon-audio.dk/shop/integrated-amplifiers/gryphon-diablo-300-integrated-amplifier/ Cheers George |
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