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Re: Virgos and tubes

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Michael Fremer, the Stereophile reviewer who used to own a pair of Virgos happily drove his Virgos with a pair of CJ Prem 12 and actually preferred the Prem 12 in terms of speed and bass dynamics over the much more powerful VTL MB450! In fact to quote him in one of his reviews, he wrote "the Premier 12s coaxed the best bass out of my Virgos". Chris Sands who lurks around here every now and then also drives his Virgos with a CJ Prem 11a w/c has half the power and less bass power than the 12 and he seems to be a happy camper.

Comparing tube and ss power is not as easy as plug and play. You just cant plug in a tube amp on a speaker setup determined using a ss amp (and vice versa) and come up with a conclusion. Tubes and ss have sufficiently different characteristics as to warrant different optimal placement in the room. Most likely, if you tried to move the Virgos around, you'll probably find the position where the Virgo put out boom boom boom with the tube amp too. If this is not the case, then the source components maybe the culprit. In my experience, tube amps are actually more revealing of the source components actual bass characteristics (i.e. results to greater variance of bass performance) than do ss amps.




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