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RE: Altec Owners - What amplifier are you using?

Posted by Stephæn on January 25, 2008 at 14:17:49

In Reply to: RE: Altec Owners - What amplifier are you using? posted by RC620 on January 25, 2008 at 13:27:34:

Hiya,

Before I launch into the amp question, have you tried any oil-filled caps
in your crossovers? If not, you simply must. Trust me. BTW, Jay's great!

Anyway ... in short, the Wright's don't come close to the sound of the
PX-25, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. What does come close will
probably surprise you. Read on:

Recently, I was evaluating a phono stage that had been running through the
deHavilland UltraVerve and the Art Audio PX-25 or an AudioSector Patek v2.
In the midst of this evaluation, I got ambushed by the Wright Sound
Company WPA 3.5 mono block amps. I had these amps a few years back and
even though I had speakers well suited to the circumstances, they just
didn't click in my system back then. This time, things were different.
Was it the latest preamp … my new speakers … the cabling … or incredible
isolation racks ... all things I didn't have the first time 'round?
Don’t know. Can’t say. Doesn’t matter anyway.

What does matter is that those amps have forced me to rethink the notions
of purity, dynamic envelopes, and the sheer love of music. At first, I
spent a good deal of time focusing on the typical audiophile aspects of
the reproduction. Thankfully, each time I let my guard down for a moment,
I was lured in, sucked in, dragged in (as if my little finger had been
twisted), to emotional nuances conveyed that would then not let go. These
2A3 amps are not dynamic in the sense that many of us have come to know,
but they are dynamic in more meaningful ways; their vibrance is less
physical, but more virtuous, in an innocent and heartwarming way.

Even so ...

I spend more time listening to the 604s through the Patek than anything
else. You just never know what's going to work well in your system 'til
you give it whirl. When paired with the 6SN7-based UltraVerve, all is well
in the land of image density, tonal saturation and textural palp.

While the Patek doesn't deliver 100% of the tube magic of my PX-25, it
gets so close that it's creepy, especially when you consider its price,
ease of maintenance and 10-year warranty. Plus, it does a few things that
some might call better with respect to transparency (absence of an
ever-so-slight tube haze), dynamics, linearity and bass response. It's
implausibly smooth (as several visitors found after I pointed it out,
sitting behind the powered-down tube amp), melodiously resolving and is
not leaving my system anytime soon.

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