Pat Farrell;216225 Wrote: > > Speakers require different amps. > > Lowther's http://www.lowtherloudspeakers.co.uk/ are extremely efficient > > and can be happily driven by flea powered SET amps. The worse speakers > I > have owned where the original "large" Advents, which required 60W per > channel and didn't sound right until you had 200 W/ch. Quads require > lots of current, not so much as power, so you have to match to them as > > well. Horns are efficient, and can sound great with very little power. > I > am sure there are many others. >
I certainly agree that you can hear quite clearly when an amp clips, and different amps clip under different circumstances. However under normal operation I think one can take the position that all solid-state amps sound identical. I don't know a single shred of solid evidence against that, and in the few A/B comparisons I've done it held true. You can buy a perfectly decent two-channel amp for peanuts (in audiophile terms at least): http://www.google.com/products?q=Behringer+A500 http://www.emotiva.com/amplifiers.html So I don't think amplification should be a particularly high priority - just buy one that's adequate and be happy. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36994 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
