larrykell
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| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? I think there are a lot of good applications for Class D amplifiers, such as small devices that need small amplifiers, but I don’t have that constraint for my home stereo. Of course, I’m the idiot who bought a 175lb amplifier that I am unable to m... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? To me, it’s about having the power to handle the transients in music and those transients can require tremendous amounts of power. I don’t understand how one can be certain that a small amount of power will be sufficient. The more current reserves... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? @atmasphere How can this be when the turning on and off of output transistors at a rapid rate in Class D amplifiers produces high frequency noise which must be filtered out? There is no such thing as instantaneous switching. I tried a Class D amp... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? The guy I bought my Colosseum from was going to Mephisto Solo monoblocks. 200w Class A each monoblock. I’m sure they sounded better than the Colosseum stereo amp. The key to moving up the ladder is finding someone who is upgrading and who is crazi... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? It’s funny, I don’t find the power bill to be that prohibitive. Maybe the amp adds $20-40 a month, I’m not sure. My electricity bills are around $175-200 a month. I also charge my Tesla at home so I don’t know how much it costs to keep that charge... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? True Class A amplifiers require large power supplies, huge heat sinks, have many output devices, consume lots of electricity, and generate a lot of heat. They’re expensive to build. My Colosseum has 48 Sanken bipolar transistors and can generate 1... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? Ron Carter fancies himself an audiophile: Ron Carter in Stereophile I guess he hasn’t seen how crazy things can get. | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? I never set out to buy an amp with an MSRP of $40k, it just happened after decades of putting together systems and deciding I liked Class A amplification. I started by having old vintage gear restored and ended up with a Sumo Gold, a 90lb Class A ... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. I ordered an Son of Ampzilla II from SST. It’s more than I wanted to spend but I can pick it up and move it around. It’s a 40lb brick and not a 75lb or 90lb brick. I’m looking forward to seeing how it does. I ran James Bongiorno’s 90lb Class A Sum... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. Thanks for the suggestion of the spade to banana adaptors. That will help. And, yes, I will dislike anything that I buy, lol. I was trying to minimize the amount of dislike. I’m in the grieving stage. I’ll have to live with the replacement for mon... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. No worries! There must be an amp that would work for me. | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. I didn’t move the cable, I just swapped what channel on the amp was connected to which cable. Both speakers are still connected with the same cables. | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. I’ll have a month with a new amp and my existing speaker cables to see if the crackle comes back. I can’t take any more chances powering on the monster amp. | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. So, you don’t think it means anything when I switched the speaker cables and immediately moved the crackle from the right channel to the left channel? The left channel has never had a crackle until I swapped the speaker cables. It’s hard for me to... | |
| Crackling in right channel, what do I do? Help, please. It’s true. There is no worthy substitute in my price range. My requirements are, it needs to take my large spades, have XLR inputs, and I have to be able to lift it. |