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RE: Tri-Amping (and digital vs. analog)

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yes, you are right. I use 3 + cables and one ground cable (but consisting of 3 cables of the same sort bundled together) for every speaker. And this sounds better to me than connecting all 3 ground cables seperately.

And I fully agree with you. The difference of tri-amping compared to using one amp only for one speaker is tremendous. I use 4 Pye HF91 mono blocs and one stereo Naim Nait 2 now. The performance, impedance and power rating of the solid state Naim Nait is most similar to the Pyes, and gives the benefit of better control of the bass drivers compared to the tubed Pyes. One Pye is used to play the tweeter and the super tweeter. One Pye is used for the midtone driver. As these are Tannoy speakers they have an dual-concentric driver with the tweeter horn in the middle and the midtone driver around it. The bass driver sits under the dual-concentric in the D700, that is a really fantastic speaker on the day you get everything right. Otherwise the treble is easily to dominant, especially with digital sources.

The tweeter horn goes up to 30000 Hz. But it is incredible how the super tweeters (up to 100000 Hz) improve the impression of being real in the room with a singer. Without the super tweeters the setup sounds much more "electronical".

Wonderful treble now, and perfect 3-dimensionality and immense musical.
And, most surprisingly to me: the difference with analog sources is a real upgrade. But with digital, it is the first time that digital sources play fine. I was already convinced that digital is always worse than analog. In my earlier setup even own-recorded 24/196 material sounded hissy, but analog material was okay. Now 24/196 plays - to be honest - as good as reel-to-reel or vinyl. Does digital treble has some artefacts that worsens the sound as long as the drivers are not seperated electronically. If I listen to my system now I get the impression that the whole digital-analog debatte could miss a point here...


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