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A good integrated amp for Silverline Sonatina II

I have a very good friend who is using a Musiical Fidelity A 3 integrated amp and the companion CD player with his Silverline Sonatina II's. The sound is very thin and there is absolutely no bottom end. He leaves the equipment on all the time and has moved the speakers numerous times in his 16x26 room with no improvement. He's using Goertz cabling and Absolute Power Cords. Any suggestions for getting more fullness in sound, including different equipment? Recommendation for a better integrated amp? CD Player?
Thanks
Glenno
glenno
ljgj
955 posts
 
An Accuphase integrated or the Mcintosh 6900 will give you bass. The Electrocompaniet EMC player with a Kora Hermes tube DAC when you upgrade.
tacs
220 posts
 
Can you borrow a tube amp, like the Rogue or VTL or Lavardin? Those might have less tightly damped bass and more bloom in the sound.
Keep in mind that neutral equipment is going to be less bass-heavy sounding; most unamplified music just isn't bass-heavy to begin with. Cheers
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wellfed
690 posts
 
Check out these autoformers before changing your hardware.

http://otlamp.com/tweaks/ps/zero/index.html

Installing these in my system changed very poor bass performance into very good bass performance. I am not sure what they can do for your friend's system though. They cost just shy of $400, but can replace your speaker cable if amp is close enough.
chelillingworth
309 posts
 
The Rogue Audio Magnum Tempest is incredible and would sound very good with those speakers.
soix
9,569 posts
 
I'd call Silverline and ask them for recommendations. Who would know better than the speaker's designer? Best of luck.

Tim
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