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In Reply to: Amity PP 300B vs. SET posted by tsotjbn on October 28, 2001 at 09:49:51:
Vince,Fantastic speakers by the way. On the state of the art side with a pair of subs if you can swing it. Anyway, I also have built the North Creek Okara II's and use them with some modified Paramours from Bottlehead. One thing is for sure, your room size will make a difference. My room is rather small (9 by 9 by 7 feet) so I can get away with a mere 3.5 watts easily although at least 10 watts will be ideal, and according to Lynn, 60 watts would be more than ideal. Remember, I have heard that Lynn does have a large, large room compared to others and he likes to listen his music clear with non truncated dynamic peaks. We all want that I'm sure. We just need to adjust our demands/needs/wives/money.
So how big is your room? If its reasonable, say 12 by 15, I would *try* Doc Bottleheads Parabees and see where that takes you. I know it will work but at what volumes do you listen to? Lynn's Amity PushPull's will undoubtedly work, but they are expensive to build and nobody is holding your hand through the process. A Parabee is conservatively rated at 8 watts, is plenty gutsy, and can be modded to your delight. You can even build a separate power supply chassis and experiment with tube rectification easily, after building it stock first and listening to it. I know Ron Welborne is also coming out with his new 15-20 watt monoblocks he once had (the Apollo's) but a cheaper version of it. You might want to look into that too. Transcendent has a kit out right now that is an OTL with 15-40 watts depending on configuration ranging in price from $1K to $2K.
Those are a couple options for you...
www.bottlehead.com
www.welbornelabs.com
www.transcendentsound.com
www.aloha-audio.com
Anand.
Follow Ups:
Hi Anand:Thanks for the input. The speakers and amps I now have are in my office as my wife was complaining a little about all the "junk" in the house (you can see the speaker pictures at: http://www.prosthodontic.net/images/Dynaco.htm in case you're interested.)
The room I will eventually put this is approx. 16x20x7 but I usually listen at low to moderate volume. I may need more power just because of the size of the room, but the speakers are relatively efficient at 89dB.
BTW, how do your speakers sound? NorthCreek did not have the Okara when I built the Rhythm but it looks nice and small. I can barely lift the Rhythm's I made because I think I poured too much concrete in the base but it does sound pretty good.
Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Vince
nt
How do they sound? For the room requirements, power provided...
absolutely fantastic. Clean, wide imaging, and shocking at times. Doesn't sound like a Vifa P13. Bass is tight, not deep (of course) and detailed. Treble is honey suckle. Midrange is V-E-R-Y open. But poorly recorded music just sucks, and sounds lifeless. George Short's capacitors are very, very nice too. I use them in parafeed amps. The Crescendos are the best combo of a fast film foil sound with the smoother oil cap presentation. Too bad he only makes it up to 10 microfarads. You realize that the amps I'm using cost only about $400 a pair to build, and if they sound this good with such inexpensive iron, I'm wondering how good they'll be with some Magnequest, Lundahl, Electra-Print, etc...Anand.
P.S. the floor standing picture on the website are my Okara's filled with sand/leadshot.
nt
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