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In Reply to: RE: The Crown IC150 & D150 posted by John Elison on March 29, 2016 at 07:23:31:
Honestly, in the early 70s at the dawn of SS designs, nothing sounded as good as the best tube units. The other prominent SS player at the time, the McIntosh C-28, was a toad.
From my perspective, it was John Curl who changed the rules for what SS could do. I had two friends who bought the JC-2 when it was introduced - a truly exceptional product. Arguably, Bongiorno's Thaedra that followed was pretty good, too. JWC had both of those in his system for comparison circa '76 or so. I still preferred both the sound and the aesthetics of the JC-2. :)
Whenever a salesman uses test tones in his sales pitch, beware!
Which is essentially all we get today with THD and distortion spectrum graphs using a 50 hz sine wave. Similarly, switching amps excel using that criteria.
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Follow Ups
- RE: The Crown IC150 & D150 - E-Stat 08:03:55 03/29/16 (4)
- RE: The Crown IC150 & D150 - Barry 08:58:26 03/29/16 (3)
- I lusted after the SP-3a before I could afford it! - E-Stat 11:36:38 03/29/16 (2)
- RE: I lusted after the SP-3a before I could afford it! - jwidgren 12:10:00 03/29/16 (1)
- Hmmm - E-Stat 17:54:33 03/29/16 (0)