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RE: SET amps

All you can get with SET is a midbass slam (there is no other type of slam anyway) and if you have 98-100db speakers. I had all sorts of horns with SET amps and it was fine , now I play with little Proacs and SS Exposure amps (like Naim) and it's also OK. All sounds produced by direct radiators i.e regular speakers are diminished in scale and size , sort of miniature of real event, even if so called stage and imaging is huge. Dome tweeters are sort of a joke when you had a taste of compression driver tweeters but it's all good. SET amps with horns is the only combination which produces startling life like feeling when you listen to it casually just like background music. I can imagine that one can be impressed by big levinson amps pumping High end towers effortlessly but when you listen to the same thing reproduced by horn speakers and SET amps it just redefines the concept of effortles sound .Unfortunately most horns and HF speakers are garbage and you pretty much have to make your own or pay home mortage for good ones. Rgrds


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