In Reply to: Re: Acurus A250 Amplifier (SS) posted by TAFKA Steve on October 15, 1999 at 04:46:21:
They in fact did change the amp.
I read a review in the "Holier than thou" Stereophile and they had a fresh from the box unit, no break in and called it "brittle at times". It basically rated c/b just above the Adcom GFA-555.
With my current setup, I experiance NO brittleness. And unlike some snots in the high end industry, I actually can HEAR 20khz well! [Audiometric exams prove that]. I just hate it when some 60 year old guy tries to critique something in the upper treble when I doubt like hell he can hear it at all.
Anyway, I have no doubt that the amp would do better with a better pre-amp than the L-10. I think for the money [I paid $600] the L-10 does exceptionally well. Curious: I had not thought of a tube preamp because I had been stuck on mosfets being more accurate than tubes. I had lengthy discussion with tube vs S/S and I vowed that I will only use S/S from now on. Weather that is true or not is a heated debate. BUT: If I were to drop $2k on a Bryston pre amp, them I am sure I will get marginal improvements as I heard thr Bryston on a set of B&W 801's. Effortless, sure, but the speakers are $5000.
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- Re: Acurus A250 Amplifier (SS) - Andrew Scott 09:45:20 10/15/99 (10)
- No prejudices against the Acurus, at all. - TAFKA Steve 15:29:23 10/15/99 (1)
- Re: No prejudices against the Acurus, at all. - Andrew Scott 15:51:50 10/15/99 (0)
- Re: Acurus A250 Amplifier (SS) - Jan Andersson 11:54:48 10/15/99 (7)
- Re: vandersteen - Andew Scott 12:45:27 10/15/99 (6)
- Re: vandersteen - Fear3000 13:45:43 10/15/99 (5)
- Re: vandersteen - Andrew Scott 14:26:08 10/15/99 (4)
- Re: vandersteen - Fear3000 17:57:51 10/15/99 (0)
- To Andrew - Francis S 15:54:43 10/15/99 (2)
- Re: actually---I will - Andrew Scott 16:08:29 10/15/99 (1)
- Re: actually---I will - Francis S 21:18:50 10/15/99 (0)