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In Reply to: RE: Is it just me? posted by davidandcandy@gmail.com on June 11, 2015 at 10:27:57
Welp David...
I'm a Klipsch guy. Been one for a pretty long time.
I've used several solid state items:
Yamaha CR-2040
Crown K2
dbx BX3
dbx BX1
and I have used a handful of tube items:
Wright 2A3 SET mono blocks
Jolida (forget model number)
Quad II mono blocks
McIntosh MC-30 mono blocks
McIntosh MC-2102
Transcendent SE-OTL mono blocks
Viva 300B SET
I think that's most or all of them....
My opinion is they all sounded good. Even the low powered amps sounded good AS LONG as they were playing within their range.
Today, I've sold 100% of the tube amps and am biamping with a pair of Crown K2's.
I felt the various amps might have imparted a difference in sound. I've always likened the analogy to this. I cook three hamburgers for you. They are identical in all ways. If I take one with zero salt and let you taste it, you have a reference point. If I take the second one and put ten shakes of salt on it, you would be able to easily discern the difference between those two. What if I take the third burger and put NINE shakes of salt on it.... would you so quickly be able to tell the difference between that one and the burger with 10 shakes? Maybe you could....maybe it would be difficult.
I liken differing amps (while in their power band) similar to the nine/ten shakes of salt.
If you REALLY want to jump your system up then in my opinion, a different amp isn't necessarily the best way to do it. I felt that getting a larger speaker was a much more significant change to my sound than all those amps put together.
Today, I've got what I feel to be substantially better sound, substantially more funds in my pocket and the ease of a solid state system (tube preamp).
Follow Ups:
How dare you admit to being pleased with Crown K-2's ? :)
What is also interesting is that, Not one tube preamp/linestage I ever tried has pleased me as much as my current solid state unit.
And....
Not one single solid state unit has pleased me as much as a tubed
amp for use in the mid range.
Each configuration of a system I have tried has varying results. I have a theory that all the electronic components in a system all speak to one another about their happiness in what they are doing.
Hey, great analogy since I'm a burger guy. Thanks, Dave
Everyone thinks I'm strange except my friends deep inside the earth
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