ICE Amps for classical music?

Thank you Al and Vince, I will look up the Horenstein and Slatkin performances. one of my 'standard candles' used to gage the ability of a system to yield highly emotional music without suffering from electronic aneurysms is the Bernstein performance with the Israel Phil on DGG--tape his, audience coughs, drop bows, Lenny's 'sound effects' of podium rain-dances and thumps and singing under his breath and all included. . . 2nd movement is the most intensely lyrical I have experienced this far. . . just the opposite of Fritz Reiner's strangeley famous read-through.

It may be worth pointing out that the Bernstein other recording, with the NY Philharmonic I believe, available on SACD is a rather sleepy affair instead.

Apologies for minor thread derailment. G.

Almarg... My house has been standing for about 180 years, and is not apt to fall down due to the 1812 overture ! After I built the subwoofer system I did have problens with rattling windows, but it was easy to find what was loose and fix it.

200 feet is too close. Where do you keep your horses :-)

Kijanki... The Maggies don't have to reproduce the subwoofer frequencies. Keeping up is simply a matter of balancing the gains. I have actually tested my system for compression at high SPL and find none up to the maximum my ears will tolerate.

Also please note that I also play quiet music, and believe that the large cones, with their minimal excursion (like a Maggie diaphram by the way) are beneficial. My large drivers have appropriately large magnetic systems, and give away nothing in the way of transient response to 7 or 8 inch woofers.

Evidently you don't like pipe organ music. That's OK. I can't stand pop.

I never thought about it before but a truly state of the art system should be able to knock a house down (I suppose)!

Oh, well, back to the drawing board....

My house has a suspended wooden floor. The foundation is made of 100 year old bricks. The house does tremble when one of those boom boom boy toys drive by. There are little cones of brick dust in the basement.

I have emergency door lock keys that sit on top of the frame of each door with such a lock on it in my house.

Despite sitting on a thinly carpeted concrete foundation, these keys will without fail vibrate off the frame and fall to the floor a few minutes into a moderately high volume listening session on my big OHM 5s.

Other than that, the effects are not too obvious but you can feel the music just fine a good ways back from the speakers when a decent (not even great) quality recording is playing.