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In Reply to: RE: Candidates For Amplifiers Sought posted by Mister Pig on July 25, 2014 at 16:30:09
I love my Parasound Halo A21, which I've owned for a couple of years. It exceeds your price point by about $1000, but Parasound makes a lower power version, the Halo A23 for $995. If you think 84-dB efficiency is kind of high, then the Parasound A23 with 125-wpc into 8-ohms and 200-wpc into 4-ohms would be perfect.
Good luck,
John Elison
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...and my emotion. The A-21, when paired in a system that plays nicely with it, is an excellent choice. Up your budget for this one if you can. And buy from someone with a 30 day return policy, such as Audio Advisor.Mine is bringing life right now to a very nice CD of Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters in concert.
See ya. Dave
Edits: 07/26/14
Fat fingered that post....94db. Fixed it in original text.Regards
Mister Pig
Edits: 07/25/14
I would try a First Watt M2. It has 14 db of gain via transformer, Class A with no negative feedback. Has some of that classic Fisher sound from the 60's, but cleaner. They can be had refurbished for about 1500.00 or so.
"What this country needs is a good 5 watt amplifier!" (Paul Klipsch)
It is worth considering. I see that Reno HiFi has refurbed ones for about $1.5K. Just hard to sort through all the first Watt variants. I should have bought the J2 that was in Asylum Trader and local to me....but I was a minute too late.
Regards
Mister Pig
The M-2 has a unique sound among the First Watt offerings. The sound it emits from use of a transformer gain stage is a bit seductive, and does remind one a bit of the old Fisher KX-200. The bias setup is also unique, and will never drift off over time.
"What this country needs is a good 5 watt amplifier!" (Paul Klipsch)
The Parasound Halo A23 is still a good value. It's hard to find a better amplifier for $995.
Bought a PAIR of 'em for my Maggies and couldn't be happier.
125 watts for a 94db sensitive speaker is Plenty, unless the speaker is highly reactive…..
Too much is never enough
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