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In the Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems
Post Subject: Looking more for a right “class” of ampPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/1/2009
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 Paul S wrote: |
| I really would not know where to start with most of the crap out there, since most commercial SS sounds like it makes "music" by inhaling it. But I've heard "acceptable" units from those listed, albeit in some poor environments in some cases. |
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Well, if I wish quality then I would go for Lamm M1.1. That was incredible amp that lighted up so many not so great loudspeakers. But they are class A that is out of my scope. I have Zarathustra II sitting here waited to be assembled that might be in competition to Lamm. I might bias it down from 250W to 50-70W but this amp is also in class A, sucks! I need something very small and able to run cool for days…
What I was thinking is not about specific amps but about the class of the amp. It might be some kind of high-end amp. There is an army to select from if only to know where to stat. Among what I heard and remember… I was thinking about the Eduardo de Lima’s little amp that I heard and liked but it looks like it is tube design. There is a small company in St. Louis - Herron Audio that makes ugly little components but I heard them and they left very pleasant feeling. They have SS amp but it looks like it is available only as monoblocks, good for somebody, bad for me. Alternately it might be some kind of vintage commercial amp like some Threshold type of amps that were very not bad. Also, it might be some consumer amp from past like Sansui 919 and alike.
It really funny, there are so many amps out there but I really do not have criteria to select them. It is possible also that I will not be able to found a SS PP A/B amp that will be able REASONABLY to replace a 6E5P-2A3 SET for upper channels of MiniMe. Well, any new post is an opportunity to bitch about something, this one is not exception…
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