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Stingray bad for Merlin TSM's or Revel M22's???


I was getting ready to hunt down a nice pair of recent Merlin TSM's (Or Revel M22) and thought the Manley Stingray integrated tube amp would be a good match....and THEN I read some reports from people claiming the Manley's soundstage is poor, narrow and so on. My budget for the Integrated Amp is about 1500 used.

Comments?

Thanks!
robbob
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philjolet
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I do not believe it about the soundstage. When I owned a Stingray it was a very good amp with nice tone and very robust too.
pubul57
3,712 posts
 
The Stingray is an excellent choice for the Merlins. Seems you are building a good system with that pairing. I think you can proceed with confidance.
latinsamba1
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I also have heard the Stingray in both my system and my friends system on full range single driver speakers. If it was a weak amp that certainly would have been revealed on those speakers. Great tone and nice punch for a relatively low watt tube amp.
georgemg
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5 years ago a listened one stingray with my merlins tsm, It did not impresioned me. The jeff rowland I was using (integrate concerta ?) was better, and I prefer tubes amlpifiers, after the JR I tryed audiopax 88 mono( SET 30watts) and the result was fantastic, after I bougth one audio aero PP 50watts calsse A and the sound also was fantastic. I know the price of audio aero and audiopax is 4 to 5x times the stingray but this is my opnion about stingray and merlint TSM.
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