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In Reply to: RE: Oh check out this Sherwood inegrated amp that very few have ever seen. posted by rosendds@frontiernet.net on April 08, 2014 at 17:16:19
Dave
It depends on the speakers or my listening mood at the time..The reference system which is in the house next door in the basement are the Martin Logan CLXs power with the McShaned Deuces or I put the Altec 1570s on them with the Tutay mods.The Deuces I run at 4 ohms in parallel effectively giving me 2 ohms and they are biamped with the Descent subs.
I haven't been listening to the Logans lately because I spend all the time in my family room where the ribbons are and on those, I run the Mc275 or the Eicos or a single Deuce or an Mc240,all of which have the McShane upgrades and they all loaf effortlessly on these speakers.
I love all tube amps and even tho I have my favorites,I've been playing with a lot of integrated amps lately.
I took on a philosophy 7 years ago after I started building my amps the way Jim McShane suggested.This worked on the Macs and Eicos as well as the Citations of course and then,I added a couple tweaks of my own for added measure with the poly filter caps, Schottkys,and maybe a choke.The Schottkys were actually Eli's idea as was the hash filter that I added to the Macs which the Mc240 really likes..The idea was to build the best reference system I could with the Deuces and the Martin Logans. I would then build every amp,preamp,or integrated amp to come as close to the sound of my big system as I possibly could..Now naturally I don't expect it to have the purity of the CLXs with the Deuces,Macs,or Altecs, but I try to at least make whatever I rebuild sound correct with the lowest distortion and best dampening and so far it has worked out well.The preamps with Jim's upgrades are the other part of the equation.
Honest amplification is better than excessive 2nd order distortion anytime.
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And I thought I had a lot of amps. Mike, how do you keep all those amp's electrolytic caps formed? Do you stick them onto a multi-outlet and have dummy loads?
I try to play all my guitar amps, at least once every six months. For a good hour or two. Anything in storage (like the 1947 Model 26) gets ramped up once a year.
I can imagine the heat of 100 amps, at idle.
8^)
Steve
Many in my amp collection I haven't rebuilt or recapped yet..The main ones I had already built and used I take out and play every 4 months.
Honest amplification is better than excessive 2nd order distortion anytime.
Mike,
Let's hope that our hearing remains good as long as possible.You have a lot of amps to listen to and enjoy.
Dave
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