generally tube amps don't have near the power of SS amps of course,
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17 of 23 speakers in my studio and home theater systems are internally powered. My studio system is all Genelec and sounds very accurate. I know the best new concert and studio speakers are internally powered there are great technical reasons to design a speaker and an amp synergistically, this concept is much more important to sound quality than the vibration systems we often buy. How can an audiophile justify a vibration system of any sort with this in mind.
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I spend enough time arguing with people who know what they are talking about @donavabdear . I don't have much time for those that don't. |
@o_holter I just searched a measurement of the MA-1 amp and the figure they arrived at was 10.5 ohms output resistance. There are very few speakers that will not experience a huge change in their output frequency response with this amp. You have become accustomed to or just like this change to the sound so I would not expect anything else to sound at all similar without an equalizer. @donavabdear there are two types of speakers that match best with tubes. Constant impedance speakers (Magnepan), and high impedance 16 ohm speakers of which there are not that many any more. There are boutique brands I am sure someone here is up on. What these speakers do is remove most of the character of the tube amp. Somehow that seems counterproductive. Similarly an active crossover with a tube amplifier would be remove most of the tube amp character as would a room correction system. I could argue the elevated room response in the upper bass lower mid that is preferred would be a perceptual effect of tube distortion. Distortion is least masked at these frequencies due to increasing sensitivity of hearing but from tubes mainly pleasant so there can be a perceptual loudness bump. |
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