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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: Hi-Fi Mini Systems
Post Subject: Amp and loudspeakers.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/7/2007

 Ronnie wrote:
Did you buy the Denon?
I'm curious because amp (speakers not included) is on a recommended components list by the Swedish LTS (Sound Technical Society).

Things with zero or low detected coloration, after meticulous listening tests, end up on that controversial list.
The ultra-scientific approach and resulting recommendations tend to ...stir up a lot of feelings and long boring debates on statistics. :-)

Yes, I got the Amp . I head it number of times and never liked but now I decided to give it a try. Some of my friends who use it for years told me that it does the best with own little Mission SC-M51 speakers. It is very comfy “desktop” setup but unfortunately very poorly sounding, primary because of the Mission speakers. Those little Mission bustards flood everything with very heavy ported noise; have absolute immunity to MF tone and their heights sounds quite rolled off but at the same time very unnatural.   I found the sound of those Missions is absolutely not acceptable for anything besides picking the voice message from my answering service.

Next I was trying to drive Tannoys 10 Red with my Amp . Theoretically with low power handling of the Tannoy’s REDs the 22W of Amp  should be fine. However, the Tannoys sound insultingly flat with Amp  with complete lost of bass. I was trying to drop the Tannoys impedance but the Amp was absolutely oblivion making Reds to sound very poor.

I settled with Amp  driving SL600. This combination does not produce a good sound but from all available for me currently evils I have chosen lesser. The SL600 need way much more current to sound acceptable but I am not wiling to add an extra amp to the setup – I would like to go away with “small blood”.  I could go in more details and specifics describing how the Denon sound with each speaker I trued but what is the point? It is very possible that the Denon is fine and I juts need to find a good high sensitivity mini-monitor that would be able to work with the Denon (I do have a separate LF channel that I might plug in if it is necessary). However, so far the "reported advances" of the Amp  did not manifest themself into a better Sound on my desk.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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