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I need SS muscle

After thinking long and hard about a speaker change, I've decided to keep my VR4 HSE's and relieve one of my cary V12's
(one powers L & R upper units and another powers the L & R lower units)and power the bass units with a good SS amp.
If i'm going to go through the expense of another amp, I want a decent used one in good condition. Brands that come to mind are Bryston,Classe,Levinson Krell and Mac right off the bat.
Does anyone have any models of these brands or others that would offer good synergy with my current setup and enough watts for the power hungry bass units(maybe 2 ohm load at certain freq's)
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ajackson1
156 posts
 
Cary CAD 500MB
JC1
ras422
182 posts
 
second the symphonic line either the rg4 monoblk or the kraft --but would be sad just to use the kraft for bass only !
jim_swantko
301 posts
 
I agree with Ajackson, try a Cary SS amp. They just released a new 1.600 mono (600W @ 8 Ohms) which should do quite nicely.
klipschfan
176 posts
 
McIntosh MC602 600 watts @ 2 ohms without burping and enough current to weld while you're listening.
bbro
191 posts
 
In the"great bang for the buck" category, consider the Odyssey Stratos Extreme SE monoblocs, expecially if you can find one of the pairs that Klaus did as an all out assault with components from the German Symphonic line , built similar to the "one offs" he built for himself. He did about 4-5 pairs of theses and they occasionally come up on Audigon. They can be had for about $2K used and nothing in my experience under $5K can touch them.
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