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In Reply to: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? posted by trioderob on January 23, 2023 at 08:10:25:
I have Tannoy Stirling GR's with a pair of Manley Snappers. I only use a watt or two of the hundred the Snappers can produce, but they sound *so* good, they're staying. (They have the best bottom end of any tube amp I've known.)
If I ever get the notion to try something low-powered, I'd look at Dan Schmalle's Bottlehead amps.I have his Crack/Speedball headphone amp and it's a wonder.
WW
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Topic - Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - trioderob 08:10:25 01/23/23 ( 72)
- depends what you like - RGA 06:35:54 02/1/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - Don Reid 09:46:39 01/29/23 ( 0)
Both nt. - Cougar 08:58:38 01/29/23 ( 0)
100dB 1w1m full range horn speakers and 200w - tomservo 07:43:34 01/25/23 ( 1)
- RE: 100dB 1w1m full range horn speakers and 200w - Analog Scott 10:48:02 01/25/23 ( 0)
Running the gamut? - MaggiesAndCats 07:32:35 01/25/23 ( 0)
Low. SET under 10 watts (nt) - Eflatminor 06:27:42 01/25/23 ( 0)
inbetween high and low - Story 04:02:56 01/25/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - mondial 03:00:50 01/25/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - gd 16:40:32 01/24/23 ( 1)
- Good post. (nt) - Jack G 09:01:33 01/25/23 ( 0)
I've done both - Jack G 06:54:57 01/24/23 ( 0)
Speakers drive the choice - E-Stat 06:44:34 01/24/23 ( 0)
What advantage to a low-power amp???? - Feanor 04:52:07 01/24/23 ( 7)
- RE: What advantage to a low-power amp???? - Goober58 12:49:33 01/29/23 ( 1)
- Admittedly many people have more power than they really need - Feanor 09:32:11 02/1/23 ( 0)
RE: What advantage to a low-power amp???? - tomservo 14:02:32 01/24/23 ( 0)
Class A, smaller Power Supply, less complicated circuit, lower cost, probably better sound. - geoffkait 10:50:33 01/24/23 ( 0)
RE: What advantage to a low-power amp???? - Analog Scott 10:13:15 01/24/23 ( 1)
- There's no necessary correlation between price and power /nt - Feanor 09:36:33 02/1/23 ( 0)
RE: What advantage to a low-power amp???? - sony6060 05:26:46 01/24/23 ( 0)
Almost always big SS amp - driver 03:30:17 01/24/23 ( 0)
Magneplanars and power. nt - kff 19:56:26 01/23/23 ( 0)
Maggies....high power. nt - slapshot 18:08:10 01/23/23 ( 0)
low but not really low - Goober58 17:22:40 01/23/23 ( 1)
- not low power in my universe (FWIW) -- nt - mhardy6647 18:06:15 01/23/23 ( 0)
Low power - Alpha Al 17:14:31 01/23/23 ( 0)
Ultimately -- SE 2A3 and... rather sensitive loudspeakers :) - mhardy6647 15:09:38 01/23/23 ( 7)
- RE: Ultimately -- SE 2A3 and... rather sensitive loudspeakers :) - 421a 10:48:48 01/25/23 ( 1)
- *like* :) (nt) - mhardy6647 13:39:11 01/26/23 ( 0)
RE: Ultimately -- SE 2A3 and... rather sensitive loudspeakers :) - amandarae 17:23:58 01/23/23 ( 4)
- Naaaa... pretty sure he has a... - musetap 21:42:32 01/23/23 ( 2)
- extremely wide angle - I call it the real estate salesperson's lens - mhardy6647 05:58:07 01/24/23 ( 1)
- Real estate folk in SF LOVE those... - musetap 12:41:25 01/24/23 ( 0)
yeah, it is too bad I am so bad at de-acquisitioning - mhardy6647 18:04:17 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - Davey 14:43:31 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Low; DHTs - Class A in PP, and horns - Oldbean2 14:20:23 01/23/23 ( 0)
In between, and that's a BIG space!! I hope I'll be settling on... - jeffreybehr 12:00:10 01/23/23 ( 0)
Yes.......... - Todd Krieger 11:56:44 01/23/23 ( 0)
I don't know. - Sondek 11:30:21 01/23/23 ( 0)
I went all in. Ultra low power. - geoffkait 11:07:06 01/23/23 ( 10)
- But it is low quality ultra low power. - Edp 21:28:07 01/23/23 ( 1)
- You say low quality, I say high quality. I win. - geoffkait 06:00:34 01/24/23 ( 0)
RE"...caps the size of dogs..." - acres verde 16:38:33 01/23/23 ( 0)
Caps the size of dogs? - ghost of olddude55 11:53:21 01/23/23 ( 5)
- I want less power, not more power, and less of everything. Less is more. Nt - geoffkait 13:16:35 01/23/23 ( 4)
- Used to share rehearsal space with Less is More... - musetap 15:00:59 01/23/23 ( 0)
- Not me. - ghost of olddude55 13:54:38 01/23/23 ( 2)
- You locked yourself in. ;-) - geoffkait 14:42:55 01/23/23 ( 1)
- But Maggies. Great place to be locked in. nt - ghost of olddude55 16:01:01 01/23/23 ( 0)
I remember those days.... and I don't miss it at all - AbeCollins 11:37:13 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Medium high? - tketcham 10:59:21 01/23/23 ( 0)
Why not medium power and an active crossover? - Ozzie 10:57:03 01/23/23 ( 1)
- RE: Why not medium power and an active crossover? - Analog Scott 11:36:17 01/23/23 ( 0)
Power - dgaapc7 10:55:40 01/23/23 ( 0)
High, high, high, high, high... - musetap 10:45:00 01/23/23 ( 0)
Hodgepodge - Bill Way 01/23/23 10:40:44 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: More Of A Maze Than A Path - B. Scarpia 10:14:11 01/23/23 ( 0)
Low power! - amandarae 10:04:18 01/23/23 ( 0)
Magnepan 1.7i and PS Audio M700 monoblocks * - Mike K 09:44:40 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - Analog Scott 09:40:53 01/23/23 ( 1)
- that sounds like my kind of system ... - trioderob 09:45:16 01/23/23 ( 0)
Both high and low power - but "normal" speakers - AbeCollins 09:16:25 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - cawson@onetel.com 09:13:08 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - trioderob 09:12:00 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - rodge827 08:52:37 01/23/23 ( 0)
RE: Survey : did you take the high power or low power path ? - mg16 08:51:33 01/23/23 ( 0)
Low --- SET Amps and Horns...............................nt - Cut-Throat 08:25:40 01/23/23 ( 0)
Sweet 'n Low here (nt) - 1973shovel 08:23:53 01/23/23 ( 0)
i took the path in between..nt - chocolate_lover 08:21:59 01/23/23 ( 1)
- RE: i took the path in between..nt - Mick Wolfe 09:25:31 01/23/23 ( 0)
Maggies here, so.... - ghost of olddude55 08:19:55 01/23/23 ( 0)