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In Reply to: Any experience with the MA-1 III.3s driving typical low-sensitivity speakers? posted by jeffreybehr on December 15, 2017 at 16:22:41:
...(or CC speakers), in that I won't be.. Therefore the MA-1 III.3s are back on the short list, tied with the PS Audio BHK 300 monoamps.I've ordered a just-released Emotiva XPA Gen3 poweramp configured with two 300W. mono modules and five 65Wpc stereo modules to drive the CC and all the surrounds and ceiling speakers (and still have one-each unused mono and stereo modules)*.. Therefore two main monoamps will do just finely at driving the front-left/right speakers.
A month or so ago I was about to order a pair of the Emotiva c. 450WPC (times three) versions of the XPA series, the XPA DR3; those would have biamped all three front speakers.. BUT...then I thought more about what I love the sounds of in poweramps (in increasing preference)--fully balanced operation, vacuumtubes, triode vacuumtubes, output-tranformerless triode vacuumtubes, and in SS amps, vacuumtube frontends, JFETS/MOSFETS, class-A biasing.. Then I realised that I was about to spend $4K on two amps that had only ONE of those preferences...so I didn't.
So I'll have Emotiva on the less-important CC and surrounds/ceilings and true-5-star-quality, fully or partially vacuumtubed amps on the mains.
We'll see how this turns out.
* I just realized that the 12-channel Emotiva (called an XPA Gen3 2.5) could drive ALL channels of my system...but it won't be. :-)
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Follow Ups
- I've changed my alleged mind AGAIN about biamping the Mahlers or Salon2s... - jeffreybehr 01/15/1811:32:47 01/15/18 (2)
- RE: I've changed my alleged mind AGAIN about biamping the Mahlers or Salon2s... - used-hifi 17:13:48 01/18/18 (1)
- And I might do that, Lawrence, but first I have to debug... - jeffreybehr 15:05:11 02/6/18 (0)
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