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In Reply to: Best amp for Newform R645: Spectron VS. Bel Canto EVo 200.2 posted by gme109 on April 9, 2001 at 20:52:55:
While i respect your technical skills, and agree that the TriPath board is a very interesting option, i think your commentary is quite undifferentiated.
Digital amps maybe share *some* sonic characteristics, but they have different technologies. Spectron uses a proprietary technique, only the BelCanto is based on the TriPath module.
Some digital amps (Sharp) had widely differing reviews: Bad (Colloms) - Rave (Mike Fremer). There are probably widely differing technical characteristics (speak: weaknesses).
The Spectron Musician II sounds outstanding in my usually tubed ears. I feel that the Spectron technology might be sonically superior, and having read comments by Ric Shultz about a modded Spectron vs. a slightly modded BelCanto give hints into that direction. Problem with the Spectron seems to be reliability, but i think it's mainly fuses that are sometimes 'eaten' at switch-on.
The Spectron is in a different class power-wise BTW. It is a very subtle and extremely expressive amp, bordering on SE territory. A real gentle giant.
I heard the multi-k$$$ Sharp digital integrated amp on the Coincident Technologies Total Eclipse and, conversely to my (Colloms-induced) luke-warm expectations, it sounded outstanding, better than the Berning ZH 270 on these speakers, and way better than a very renowned italian 845 SE amp, the New Audio Frontiers. Just almost audio dreamland, for me one of the less than a handful of *really* satisfying audio systems i ever heard.My feeling is that one of the main problem of digital amps is keeping the clock jitter-free within an extremely 'magnetized' ie. high-current environment. The earlier TacT amp had pretty mediocre jitter measurements and i suspect this is true for at least the Sharp amp, if not all others too in differing degrees.
Now this seems to be less of a problem when an analog source is used, as in the Sharp, Spectron and Bel Canto. Probably because, if a common master clock is used, the majority of jitter-induced distortions are cancelled out by the reciprocal converting processes.
The wished-for jump in quality for digital input signals might be a premature assumption therefore.
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Topic - Best amp for Newform R645: Spectron VS. Bel Canto EVo 200.2 - gme109 20:52:55 04/9/01 ( 14)
- FWIW - Classe Integrated - Mike Agee 19:30:11 04/10/01 ( 1)
- Re: FWIW - Classe Integrated - gme109 23:06:08 04/10/01 ( 0)
Re: Best amp for Newform R645: Spectron VS. Bel Canto EVo 200.2 - Steve M 15:37:09 04/10/01 ( 3)
- EVO - rnhood 20:38:36 04/10/01 ( 0)
Re: Best amp for Newform R645: Spectron VS. Bel Canto EVo 200.2 - gme109 18:24:26 04/10/01 ( 0)
Richard Gray power Co sounded better than P 300 - Ed Hsu 16:35:22 04/10/01 ( 0)
Re: Best amp for Newform R645: Spectron VS. Bel Canto EVo 200.2 - Jim 13:11:23 04/10/01 ( 0)
digital technologies, power circuits & jitter - Arbelos 04/10/01 06:19:52 04/10/01 ( 0)
Re: Best amp for Newform R645: Spectron VS. Bel Canto EVo 200.2 - C.B. 23:34:29 04/9/01 ( 5)
- Monoblock easier to power ? - Ed Hsu 16:42:18 04/10/01 ( 3)
- Re: Monoblock easier to power ? - C.B. 23:19:24 04/10/01 ( 2)
- Re: Monoblock easier to power ? - MikeCh 12:04:45 04/16/01 ( 0)
- Good question - Ed Hsu 14:50:13 04/11/01 ( 0)
Re: Best amp for Newform R645: Spectron VS. Bel Canto EVo 200.2 - Rob Gold 08:23:27 04/10/01 ( 0)