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In Reply to: RE: spend some time with a 1970s pair of Heresys posted by RPMac on February 19, 2020 at 13:36:45:
They came with a McIntosh MC-2100 and the combination made me, quite literally, cringe. The MC-2100 and its early, autoformer-coupled kin are grainy, grating amplifiers, and a sensitive loudspeaker is their reverse sweet spot, IME.
A very low powered SE vacuum tube amplifier (Decware Zen SE-84B) rescued them for me; SE 2A3 was better still. Best I ever heard them was with a Marantz 8B that I had the privilege of rehabbing for someone in MA. They also sound(ed) pretty good with a Fisher 500C, which rounded off the rough edges of the Cornies fairly well.
That 8B, though, is a 2DIE4 amp (with apologies to Stereophile ).
all the best,
mrh
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- The Cornwalls I had were positively unbearable with ss amplification - mhardy6647 02/19/2014:52:08 02/19/20 (3)
- RE: Should have said a 2A3 SET - RPMac 16:18:30 02/19/20 (2)
- nor are all ss amp, or there wouldn't be so danged many of them :) (nt) - mhardy6647 04:32:38 02/20/20 (1)
- RE: nor are all ss amp, or there wouldn't be so danged many of them :) (nt) - Mr_Steady 07:58:44 02/20/20 (0)
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