hddg
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| I went from Class D to Luxman A/AB - And most of what you think is wrong I own many types of amps, different types of tube amps, different A/B amps, including the much referred to Benchmark AHB2 (which is actually A/B/H) and big classA Gryphon Mephisto monos...I have no classD amp to date, but do believe that, given th... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. Choice of gear, and especially so speakers, cannot be made independently from associated components. But let's say that in an absolute, I would choose as much as possible the best quality/price ratio above which no improvement is found.A few years... | |
| One Amp To ‘Rule’ Them All.... The amps you mention are not there. If we are to take amps that are used BOTH at home and in studios, here’s a list of actuals, not suppositions:- Benchmark AHB2- FM Acoustics- JMF Audioand the list is not much longer than that. Most amps used in ... | |
| In search for speakers of "natural" sound Tannoy Prestige. Tobian Sound. Proac. Sonu Faber...Harbeth sounds quite natural usually. Maybe try another amp? | |
| Road trip to demo $10,000 speakers Well that’s a nice and exciting trip, but I know it is also usually sprinkled with some anxiety about making the right choice. The best advice I can give is use your ears, your heart and your soul first...that’s what music is all about. Dont let m... | |
| Solid State vs. Tubes - What if Transistors came first? With the history in time of the two types of amplifiers, there is not only a psychological explanation of how we see it, due to that we may at first think that newer inventions are necessarily better, just because it's newer and built from the pre... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? Many actually, but what comes to mind are Tannoy, Harbeth, ESL in general, and I must state as always the XTZ Master M2... a jewel of a speaker given the right amps | |
| Ayre Parasound Pass : where are you? I think we look or want to have the most we can get from the amps we invest into. My amps must be balanced, have very nice and "true" tones, they must be fast, powerful, recreate the soundstage and image, and they must have timing, attack and big ... | |
| Plinius Hiato vs MA9000 vs Hegel H360 (powerful integrated amps under 10k with 200 watts) I would go for some dynamic amp. In this budget, you can maybe shift to a good combination of preamp/amp. Benchmark AHB2 fit well with PMC. If you start with one unit (110*2) and a good tube preamp, you could later add a second unit and get 400W/c... | |
| Pass XA200.8 Review - Fun measurements by the way this is a nice and intelligent post Erik. | |
| Pass XA200.8 Review - Fun measurements Erik,I think i did catch the sense of your post, and i have responded to it my way, cannot do otherwise. I do not own any Pass amps at this stage. Heard them several times and I cannot objectively say that they are bad sounding amps, on the contra... | |
| Pass XA200.8 Review - Fun measurements shadorne,i have nearly all from Benchmark, all dac models and amps. Used the AHB2 in mono on Tannoy GRF90 through very good tube preamp. Very nice sound, fast and dynamic, which to me are the strong points of these little marvels. Tried the XA160.... | |
| Pass XA200.8 Review - Fun measurements yes, it is, and they say so themselves, but a bit in a disguised way. They built amps for what one hears, not for measurements. If one likes the sound, who cares of measurements?? which even excellent sounding tube amp measures well... none!!eithe... | |
| Integrated Amp to match with Magico A3 Technical Brain | |
| What makes a speaker sound great at low volume? Among many many parameters, I'd say the single most important one is the speaker itself. I own several, and I find that usually, bookshelves sound the best at low volumes. If your room is not that big, I would look that way. I have 99dB (Tannoy We... |