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In Reply to: RE: New side and rear surrounds - Magnepan, BG, Sunfire? posted by methylmarty on January 18, 2015 at 09:20:39
Agree completely about the XPA-2. It's a good sounding amp and amazing for the money -- if it hadn't been, I would have sent it back. But that subtle, fine upper midrange graininess/bipolar sound bothers me. I guess it's a case of having tasted the Kool Aid . . . I'd be happy to live with and recommend the Emotiva but once you've lived with liquid mids and highs you're always going to want it. And I imagine it would be even more apparent with the true ribbon than it was with my MMG's.
Well if I could try any single amp at this point it would probably be the Magtech but last I checked they were kind of pricey and ultimately I'm planning to tri amp, so Class D bass plus two smaller, more liquid amps makes sense.
Have you considered a Class D pro amp for the bass? That's what Satie did. Really, any reasonable Class D amp is going to sound great on bass duty, since the Class D problems occur at higher frequencies. So you don't need something super refined if you aren't running full range. Not that an ICEpower amp wouldn't be a good choice.
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I have a few Crown and Hafler pro amps in my studio that I could test out. Problem right now is with the rest of the gear - crossovers and such. I have an XO-1, but eh... not a true crossover, I'd rather do it right. Besides, the only amp I have for the top end is my Sunfire. I guess I'm just too lazy and/or broke to play with biamping right now. But I will, eventually.
Yeah, the crossover is a problem. I'm also a big believer in bass EQ, you can only do so much with position and trapping, even with dipoles. Actually you can get good digital xover/EQ really cheaply, the problem is the quality of the DAC's . . .
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