In Reply to: Thoughts on the 1.7, upgrade amp or XO parts? posted by Branko on January 7, 2021 at 13:48:29:
UPDATE POST
Hello you guys, I promised to keep you posted...
As some wisely suggested, the amp was the weakest part. I was already looking into 'afforable' High end amps. Perreaux came on my radar. First I went to listen to a P350 poweramp with my Maggies on the road. I looked into the class D designs but found the Lyngdorf would not be able to drive the maggies bottemend. Then I a found a matching Perreaux pre-amp. Did some bidding and here I am...
Last week I installed the Perreaux SM6 mk2 pre-amp in my system. Still driving thru the outputstage of my Bada hybrid amp, it allready made all the difference. What some of you suggested, the amp was the reason that the 1.7's did not sing. To be more precise, the pre-amp was the bad guy.
I have listend to this combo for a couple of days and it sounded really good. The Bada amp has 8 Sanken mosfets per channel in class A. That is really hard to beat. But because the building quality of the amp is shite, and one day something will burn because of the enormous heat, I decided i have to go for a good power amp.
So in comes the Perreaux Prisma 350 which i found with a enthousiast nearby. I took my maggies to his place and after an hour or so, acclamatizing, the really started to sing. He had it recapped not long ago. He was playing it with a passive tubestage as preamp. I don't want to be bothered with tubes anymore so i went for the combo with the SM6.
They are now both playing 'in', not critically listening still cause of the new caps.
I think this will be a good combo for years to come. The pre-amp is so meticoulus built and layed out. No overspeak at all.
I will share my opinion soundwise in a while.
Cheers,
Branko
My system:
MHZS CD-88 as driver, Metrum Acoustics Octave DAC, Pro-Ject Pespective/Ortofon MC-10, iFi Phono stage, Perreaux SM6 mk2 pre-amp, Perreaux P 350 poweramp. Cables Grimm TPR, VdHul 105 III, JohnvanGent ZilverGoud II, Xindak flat speaker cable.
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- RE: Thoughts on the 1.7, upgrade amp or XO parts? - Branko 11:29:06 01/26/21 (3)
- RE: Thoughts on the 1.7, upgrade amp or XO parts? - HappyTrails 00:39:16 01/28/21 (0)
- RE: Thoughts on the 1.7, upgrade amp or XO parts? - FX35 05:19:05 01/27/21 (1)
- On the Chinese stuff - Branko 16:03:44 01/28/21 (0)