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ICE Amps for classical music?

I listen to classical orchestral music at heavy volume. I detest reproduced music for always sounding more or less electronic and not acoustic. Real music is beautiful in a way reproduced music--so far at least-- never is. I have become curious about Wyred4sound amps because of low price and high watts. I am wondering if any of you "mostly classical" listeners have heard these amps and feel they do no more damage to music than amps which are NOT ICE amps. I am using a Plinius SA100 now and have used a VAC 100/100,
a Bedini Classic 100/100, a Music Reference RM-9, and other tube and solid state amps. They all had their pluses and minuses, of course, but for least electronic, clearly the Bedini was the winner. So what about ICE amps?
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weseixas
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Henry has a 1 ohm scinnie , so i can see the amplifier being tailored for such a load .

Now my interest is peaked and definitely will have a listen to one. I know Bel canto has advised not to drive a 1 ohm load with there's.
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kijanki
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Muralman1 - I'm not sure what statements you're talking about. Please read again second sentence of my post.

Again - Icepower modules are not rated for 1ohm (min load 2 ohm) nor H2O amps are. If they work fine - all the better. I just stated specifications.
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kijanki
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Weseixas - "Henry has a 1 ohm scinnie , so i can see the amplifier being tailored for such a load."

If that's the case the why his products are specified 2ohm minimum load. Am I missing something?
weseixas
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Kijanki
If that's the case the why his products are specified 2ohm minimum load. Am I missing something?

Most manufacturers will not list the 1 ohm operation for liability reason, but for those of us who venture there we know the ones that can. According to Murlman his can and i do know Henry has a 1 ohm scinnie himself.
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kijanki
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Weseixas - So I understand that in general case manufacturer of the module and maker of the amplifier says that this amplifier is not guaranteed to perform with less than 2 ohm and we know that some speakers are exception.

Manufacturer does not recommend using amp for load impedances lower than 2ohm. We could keep guessing why (damage to amp, damage to speakers, not holding other spects etc.) but to me 2ohm is min. I also understand that Muralman has limited choice of amps capable of driving 1 ohm speakers so he tried Icepower and as I understand was very successful.
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