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In Reply to: RE: Magnepans and Vincent amps posted by LineSource on July 21, 2020 at 15:29:28
I have experience with both, what's your question? "sweeten things up" isn't much to go on.
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What is your experience compared to other amps? Do the Vincent amps warm up the sound without decreasing detail and upper frequencies? Have you heard the SP332 with Magnepans and if so how big of a room was it in, which model speakers and did it drive them without strain?
LineSource
A friend of mine who own's a audio shop in Germany uses Vincent mono's with 20's in his own home, and he has a lot to choose from, so you get the idea, but....... he also uses it for movies + home theatre at high levels, not really my thing, I'm more of a purist......... honest, uncolored music reproduction is the only thing I'm interested in, so when a company states on their site that they added tubes to "warm up the sound" I start to look elsewhere. They also classify their amps as "class A", but are actually A/B, with only the first 10 watts in class A.
If you go for Vincent's then at least go mono and get as much class A as you're willing to pay.
Edits: 08/13/20
They do have a big mono block that puts out 600W in to 4ohms with 50 of it in Class A but I can't find it anywhere in the US. Interestingly it has no tubes. It's probably out of my price range anyway. Their SP-T700 monos are 10W of Class A but only have single ended inputs. I'm going to continue using the Emo XSP-1 preamp which is fully dual differential but only through it's balanced outs. So I'm leaning heavily towards giving their SP-332 stereo unit out because it has balanced inputs. If I don't like it I can always send it back to Audio Advisor after thirty days.
LineSource
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