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The new Dan D'Agostino Momentum integrated at 120 lbs. even beats out the McIntosh MA-8000 which is a measly 100 lbs.
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Jut have your butler do the lifting.
I've given up hauling around my 95-lbs Fender Twin Reverb (loaded with two JBL D120F).
8^)
How much of the weight is the internals and how much of the weight is their fancy casework?
My Line Magnetic 219IA weighs 55kg and the weight is in the transformers costs about 1/9th the price. Having heard both - well I would not change even if you took away a zero.
Sorry for typo in Subject Line
My ASR Emitter II Exclusive integrated amplifier - over 320 lbs. - behind Schiit DAC. ASR power supplies behind speakers. Battery power supply for line stage behind integrated (hidden from view).
Best regards,
Jim Smith
Edits: 11/17/16
...I want those Tannoys! And your listening room. ;-) Nice.
I'm far from an expert about this, and I've never heard the amp nor spkrs. Just would have thought 96db spkrs. would be a natural mate with a considerably less powerful class A amp, or even SET.
Edits: 11/18/16
Which is a real plus with sensitive speakers.
Rick,
For a couple of years, I had been using the best 300B amps I had ever heard.
But the ASR - at any volume - was better than anything - ss or tube - in my experience. I did do a few tweaks, however... :)
And you're right - at 96 dB sensitivity, no way do I need 280 watts/ch.!
Except for their sound - at any volume.
Best regards,
Jim Smith
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heard them at Sea Cliff driving the big Nolas.
Having two pair of them (and their flotilla of PS boxes) covered quite a bit of floor space. :)
Beautiful pics- guys.
sorry about my typo too, Jim..looks like you're into some really heavy metal these days - good to see you're keeping your schiit light though ;)
The Metaxas Ikarus...
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They look like kiddie rides you see outside a discount store but I don't see where you put the quarter in.
They look like sea creatures to me.
The "Seaview" main submarine and "The Flying Sub" from that classic NBC 1960's Sci-fi TV series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"...
I forgot about "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". Loved that show.
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reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Better have good biceps to lift the wallet it's going to take to buy that thing. For the cost of that amp I could have the best system I would ever need and probably enough to replace my car.
No doubt, that DDA builds the most beautiful gear.
All I have to say about it:
Seems like a good argument for dual monoblocs.
If I had $45K to spend on just an amp WHY would I buy this one???
Is it modern audio art?
Is it look I have a unique stereo?
Does it come with a schematic so I can fix it when you and my $45K are long gone?
At what point in engineering does audio end and bull begin? Seriously, at what dollar amount would you say the division of quality and hype begins?
The high end audio industry has the psychology figured out. Make a $45,000 product that nobody on Earth wants or will buy, and then your horribly overpriced $12,000 and $8000 and $4000 products will look like bargains, even to Joe Sixpack. Beats the hell out of trying to compete with companies producing very high quality products at a fraction of the price.
Edits: 11/19/16
I guess we do need such products. They give audiophiles stuff to discuss.
KP
stuff to become audiophiles.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
It is very heavy and it is absurdly expensive, two of the most important audiophile qualities to sounding good, it should be a real winner.
With those audiophool "qualities" John Atkinson is bound to love it.
Cheers,
SB
Michael Fremer will go Ape over it but I am not sure that it cost enough for him.
This one is kinda goofy looking, and is quite expensive, and apparently
does a fine job of reproduction. But it's solid state, which makes me
a bit leary of it as I prefer the distortions inherent in tube amps.
Nonetheless I would certainly give it a listen were I in the market.
A Spent force... decades ago.
What an ugly monstrosity....
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