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In Reply to: Re: Bryston 4BST Amplifier (SS) posted by Mart on August 03, 1999 at 01:45:36:
For me politeness consists of 1) A laid back perspective--the performers are further away from the speakers. 2) A sense of compression of dynamics, a kind of deadness, a lack of "jump" factor. 3) Smoothness and lack of irritation(good in itself, but not when coupled with a lack of dynamics).The 4BST is the perfect match for the bass response of the PSB strat gold. The golds can be boomy with lesser amps. I have heard the boominess while driven by Adcom and NAD amps, both of which I owned. With the Bryston, the PSB's are amazing! Thew energize the room and are rock solid.
I like the ML's a lot, yet I opted for the PSB's. Why? The PSB's are a better "real world" speaker. I do not have the room for the ML's which need to be well away from all walls. The PSB's need it too, but are less critical, especially with the blend between woofer and midrange.
The PSB's have better bass and can play louder too. Sometimes I want a loudspeaker to play loud.
I have never heard the Brystons drive ML's and I'd be curious as to how that combo would sound. Someone over at Audio Review has this set up, check the reviews on the 4BST over there.
Detail is excellent. There again, only with the Silver Audio interconnects.
I've found that in my experience that this "politeness" is attributable to the amp's damping factor. Whereas I've found most of the PSB line suffers from a dreadful lack of physical damping chiefly responsible for a lack of detail but an incredible projectedly forward albeit fuzzy image, the HK line has an unwieldy amount of electrical damping. This has been known to eradicate impulses & impact as well. The damped signal seems incapable of yileding sudden edgy sounds.Are you telling us that the Bryston has a similar voice, responsible for implemented detail? If this were so I'd hate to hear the articulate electrostatics with it. I'd still want to hear tube powered Quads, or a biamped ML with tube powered Ag cables connecting the ES tweeter via a single air-core transformer & Cu to the SS powered dynamic woofer.
BTW, tell me about real world speakers. I own MG2.7s & MGLR1s in a 20'x15' rool w/ dual FSR18s. Obviously, I gave up that entire concept a long time ago. Too bad my TV is a comparative scrawny 27". Although, I was waiting to a Panasonic XF32" to become real world afordable. I'm presently leaning towards an Arcam amp for an effortless sound with a Dennon preamp for the 96/24 Burr-Brown DAC in the DD. I liked Marantz PM-17s ability to establish dynamics in a Magnepan but seemed to have discarded details along the way. Plus, the SR-18 lost a lot of the effortless sound of the 17 it was supposedly modelled after.
Now, if I got you straight, what exactly opened up again after it broke in?
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