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Post Subject: "Update"Posted by Paul S on: 3/27/2012
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No surprise, the biggest problem when shopping for "suitable" amps is getting a bead on the sound using systems featuring the truly BAD "high end" speakers and ancilliaries. Still, I actually found something that might be acceptable; but units are currently in pre-pay/order mode, 5 weeks out. GAAAH! Not to mention that these amps MAY sound like crap immediately when their "limits" are exceeded, and I don't know yet where those limits are, in my own room. Chicken/Egg/Chicken/Egg... Obviously, I have to get the amps in my own room - for a while - but how to do it...
As for the big, powerful amps I actually want to find, nothing promising so far. So far, anything with "power and control" sounds just like that, a sort of "wet blanket" effect that I just HATE! I also hate the "creamy", "velvety", or "wet" sound! The sad truth is, basically, I like SETs operating in their comfort zone, including the bass! In fact, the "funniest" thing so far is that the best bass I have heard came from triode PP amps, and this was almost as good as the bass from the ML2s (as far as it goes...)... To tell the truth, the little 2A3s have wonderful bass (as far as it goes...). Too bad the penalty for SS bass "extension" is so high!
I can't emphasize enough how much I HATE the audiophile speakers!!! I can pretty much say, the bigger and more expensive they are, the WORSE they sound! And when I think of the "name" "reviewers" using these speakers to make proclamations about amps and other audiophile gear, it is sooo obvious how ridiculous this whole "system" is!
Some time ago I wrote that if your speakers don't work with ML2s, then change your speakers! And there is still part of me that thinks I blew it selling the ML2s... Very certainly, nothing I have heard so far gets as much right in terms of what matters most to me in Sound.
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