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In Reply to: RE: This was in the Roy Gregory Review posted by Frihed89 on April 18, 2012 at 10:04:22:
Hello all, I'm the mid-bass shy friend, or at least that is my system anyway. First off, thank you all for trying to be of some help in this situation, I really do appreciate your thoughts.As my friend Jeff has depicted the room layout it would be impossible to put a speaker at the front door/landing of the second floor stair case. I have thought about a long wall set-up but feel having a listening couch against one wall would be a greater handicap sonically than the set-up I have today.
As far as power amps go the Atma's are 140w each at 8Ω with 14 twin triodes a side. I am in no need of huge solid state slam because it isn't realistic to live music (my reference) and timbre, tonality, and texture are, and the OTL's have that in spades. We have tried many other amps, admittedly with my Aesthetix Calypso Signature pre-amp usually in the mix and the 18w Almarro and Cary super amp had more (bottom end) bass but, little mid-bass. Granted, neither held a candle to the Atma's for detail, clarity, speed, dynamics, etc and the bass was a little wooly. I have heard the Atma's on Classic Audio Reproduction CAR T-3's and they where simply amazing, with no lack of anything! And no lack of bass punch (not SS bass) but realistic musical tube bass. And about the Roy Gregory quote, I interpreted his bass comment about folks like MF with huge speakers and SS amps who need bass slam to shock and awe visitors, as an audio stunt, not the kind of bass in real acoustic music or sought after by realistic music lovers. I think if you reread it in context it will agree with my interpretation.
My concern is that when we tried the MP3 Atma-Sphere with their MA1's the bass was huge and had slam, the mid was nice but the upper end was lacking. Two things that could have had something to do with its short comings, it had very few break-in hours on it, I have no idea of the tube compliment, it was employed with the old Coincident TE's, and it was quit some time ago so my memory may be a bit faulty on exact impressions. When my friend Jeff referred me back to the MF review from 2005 of the Aesthetix pre-amp the test results may lead me to believe that there may be an issue of synergy with the pre-amp and the power amps due to impedance compatibility. The Atma's input is 200kΩ balanced and the Calypso with balanced output of 600Ω sounds like it fits well within the minimum 10x rule but, I am far from a complete understanding of what really works in this relationship.
Well, that is a few more tidbits of what I know, what I think I know, and what might be relevant to the issue at hand. Thanks again all.
Oh, and just to clear up a point about the CD player, I like it, it is adequate, but I have little serious interest in digital sound.
Happy Listening!
Edits: 04/18/12
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