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| bryston 14bst or aragon 8008bb According to Bryston, the 14B-ST is an improved version of the mono 7B-STs. Like the 7B-STs, it will drive anything; and is dead quiet as well. And of course there is always that 20 year fully transferable warranty, which if nothing else, signific... | |
| Thiel 3.6 s and amplifier choices I once owned 3.6s and loved them. I made a huge mistake in selling them. The main requirement is a fairly powerful high current amplifier that will comfortably handle a 2 to 3 ohm load. Thiel often recommends Classe, though I personally have never... | |
| Lifting grounds in the system. All of the above should have the "cheater" plug if you ask for it correctly. What you want is a three prong to two prong adapter plug. The Radio Shack part number is as follows: 61-2720. Cost is less than $2.00 for a package of 2 plugs. | |
| Deleterious effects of bridging ?? Bridging will obviously increase the power by a factor of three or four. However, it also increases the distortion and, in addition, limits the ability of the amplifier to drive lower impedance loads. With many bridged amplifiers, 8 ohms is the pr... | |
| Marsh A400 vs Bryston 4B-ST What is most critical in your decision is the interaction between the speaker and the amplifier. I own a 4B-ST and love it. And I am also an active proponent of the Bryston 20 year warranty (noted above) as well as the exceptional service and over... | |
| Newbies Biamp question. If your preamplifier has two separate outputs, then you can indeed use that for bi-amping IF BOTH OF YOUR AMPLIFIERS HAVE EQUAL SENSITIVITY and IDEALLY EQUAL INPUT IMPEDANCE. If you use two identical amplifiers from the same manufacturer, then the... | |
| Integrated Amps: How Good? The high-end integrateds are excellent products, and by eliminating a set of interconnect cables -- with all of the accompanying potential for RFI problems and other undesirable sonic issues -- they are often the equal of many pre/power combinatio... | |
| Stereophile lists? Where can I find them The STEREOPHILE list is printed twice a year: once in April and once in October. The list is modified at those times, based on either the product having been discontinued or because of the lack of a recent audition. For the most part, the list is ... | |
| Classical? music question As I sort of remember, the music for THE WORLD AT WAR is an original soundtrack composed and conducted by Carl Davis, who has an excellent reputation as a film composer. As for THE WAR YEARS, are you possibly referring to THE VALIANT YEARS, a seri... | |
| Thiel and Jeff Rowland At different times, but not together, I have owned both the 3.6s and the Concentra Integrated Model 1 (not the newly released Model II) and I have some reservations about how well that combination may work together electronically. The Thiel 3.6 is... |