ICE Amps for classical music?

Weseixas,

Can you confirm the damping factor spec of the Threshold amp?

As I mentioned prior, I'm suspicious of the high damping factor (>1000) of the Bel Canto perhaps not being a good match for Maggies, but that is just my technical intuition talking.

I'm wondering if anybody else has any observations regarding amp damping factor and how to match that to the Maggies?

Muralman,

I was suggesting for you to host the next shootout , threshold vs the H2O. 2 members of our group lives in NC..

If not, i understand and can just Listen -)

Mapman,

I'm still not sure what you are suggesting . what does the maggies and piano have to do with my statement.

My statement is of such :

"Pianos sounded better on the threshold , especially the tonal balance vs the BC."

This was the consensus of all present not just mine including the owner of the system, it's his " maggies" and BC.

Nothing like A/B testing to put things back in perspective
of course and not noted, none of this was optimized for the Threshold, we used what he had optimized for his BC
setup , speaker leads, interconnects and his ARC -pre ( SS)

I would have liked to have tried his BC in my system , but BC advised against it and the threshold barely got warm on his , I let them rest on mine after 40 mins.

This comparison came about because my friend was very impressed with my sound with the Thresholds and was thinking of upgrading his maggies for the 1.7 .

So we did the amp thing as i wanted to know if CLass-d was the way to go and he did say the BC destroyed his Krell, so we were all curious.

I left him with the threshold , the saga continues ...this is all fun , if you open the mind and enjoy..

"Pianos sounded better on the threshold , especially the tonal balance vs the BC."

I was just relating that having never heard either amp with Maggies, which have atotally different sound from anything I am running currently with the Ref10000mkii, I have no basis to assess what it would sound like other than what you relate.

Also, having never heard a BC with Maggies, I am not certain going in that Class D amps would be my first choice with those either, but would be curious to hear the combo and know for sure.

Ah, Weseixas, the mystery continues, just who you are. I would be extremely excited to host a shoot out of the Threshold against the H2O. While we are at it, we can test any number of SCs for laughs. Nothing would please me more.

We will have to make a date - We will plan on a day, after my C 4-5 spinal path is cleared this month. Shoot me an email

One thought that occurred to me is that I consider both Magneplanar and IcePower to be way towards the low fatigue factor end of the spectrum. I would expect the combo of these two tehnologies to be the same.

That might be considered a good thing to some or too laid back and uninvolving to others, depending on personal preferences and such.

Also a touch of tube warmth somewhere up front of the amp might be another good ingredient to toss into the Class D amp soup, again depending on the nature of the system as a whole and listening preference.

I owned a Sony CD player not too long ago. The combo of the Sony sound, IcePower, and Maggies seems like one that I might expect to perhaps be somewhat towards the cold and thin end of the spectrum and perhaps could benefit from a bit more warmth somewhere in the signal chain.