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Post Subject: Easy now....DBA!Posted by mats on: 9/24/2007
I don't know why the Berning topic gets everyone so worked up. No need for another ZOTL screaming contest. Is this not a hobby where we explore many solutions? It is a difficult subject technically. I for sure can not speak about the theoretical advantages of various solutions. I have however used a Siegfried for about 10 years with a few different speakers. Oris front horns with fullrange Supravox's ( alnico and field coil) , as well as OB filtered and unfiltered drivers, and my current front horn work in progress, where Siegfried drives a Supravox 215-2000 EXC from 300 to 900Hz, and a Micro ZOTL drives a JBL 2435 in a no name 500Hz front horn from 900Hz, both with PLLXO. So I guess I have Dedicated Berning Amplification. Is that the ultimate then, the DBA system? I don't think so. I will say however that the amplifiers have never appeared to be my problem. Mostly I have wrestled with congestion of complex and content rich music, but as my speakers and other electronics (D-transport) have improved, the amplifiers continue to figure as transparent windows for other changes. The tone of my systems have mostly been very neutral, non electronic sounding. Right now I am playing Gavrilov's Prokofiev 2 using the newly arrived Belkin Synapse cable, and I feel it is a piece of cake for this system. Fun and very engaging, difficult to concentrate on writing, and no problem for the Bernings. Still, I have often thought that the Berning amps do not do an amplifier version of what FM does to a signal. Perhaps some of the best big iron amps have an effect on the sound analagous to what FM does. Although the FM effect is heard clearly thru the Bernings. Note that I have not had many xformer amps here in my system. The best was an Air Tight several years ago.
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