The entertainment value never seems to stop!
"My 25 watt tube mono blocks can hang with ANY 100wpc consumer grade receiver."
Good to know, since I don't use a POS consumer-grade receiver. I use a high-current amplifier; not relying only on wattage specs.
And then there's poor old MC, confusing watts with current, and a general lack of being able to read all of the posts ("how about reading the actual listener comments"; how about reading all of the posts smart-guy?).
The OP indeed was able to achieve "openness, bloom" but ran out of steam beyond that, as noted by his comment of "missing dynamics/slam". As correctly pointed out by someone else, this is indeed due to lack of current to drive the low-end and areas of low impedance. Again (for dense members and/or lack of thoroughness when reading posts), there was indeed a lack of "something".
"My 25 watt tube mono blocks can hang with ANY 100wpc consumer grade receiver."
Good to know, since I don't use a POS consumer-grade receiver. I use a high-current amplifier; not relying only on wattage specs.
And then there's poor old MC, confusing watts with current, and a general lack of being able to read all of the posts ("how about reading the actual listener comments"; how about reading all of the posts smart-guy?).
The OP indeed was able to achieve "openness, bloom" but ran out of steam beyond that, as noted by his comment of "missing dynamics/slam". As correctly pointed out by someone else, this is indeed due to lack of current to drive the low-end and areas of low impedance. Again (for dense members and/or lack of thoroughness when reading posts), there was indeed a lack of "something".