Kinda makes amplifier choice crucial to the system performance in my book.
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Not in my limited experience, as i stated earlier,
Richard's 2 loan tube amps, performed quite well vs the much more pricey and beefier Defy7.
It was not like night/day difference.
The 3 digital souces , had close performance.
It was the Diatone FR vs the xover/box design which revealed a wide margin in performance.
From this test, seems to me : all tube amplification requires a high sensitivity speaker.
Futher my testing does not take in the idea, SET amplification is The Ideal power source for wide band drivers.
SET amps as we all know have limitations,.. these flaws tend to surface when it comes to certain styles of music.
I'm not buying in the idea SET's are superior in wide band speakers.
When my 2nd FR arrives in a few weeks, I'll see if Richard will loan out his *treasured* SET amps.
I doubt it,
But this way I could get a real experience of these 2 beautiful tube amplifiers in a high sens speaker.
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Not in my limited experience, as i stated earlier,
Richard's 2 loan tube amps, performed quite well vs the much more pricey and beefier Defy7.
It was not like night/day difference.
The 3 digital souces , had close performance.
It was the Diatone FR vs the xover/box design which revealed a wide margin in performance.
From this test, seems to me : all tube amplification requires a high sensitivity speaker.
Futher my testing does not take in the idea, SET amplification is The Ideal power source for wide band drivers.
SET amps as we all know have limitations,.. these flaws tend to surface when it comes to certain styles of music.
I'm not buying in the idea SET's are superior in wide band speakers.
When my 2nd FR arrives in a few weeks, I'll see if Richard will loan out his *treasured* SET amps.
I doubt it,
But this way I could get a real experience of these 2 beautiful tube amplifiers in a high sens speaker.