@pwhinson I don’t doubt your friends JBL m2 setup sounds amazing....
many people on this site would regard that system as ‘substandard’ or ‘not worthy’ of comment, but I have a feeling it works great.
i have been playing with Crown XLS 1500 and 1502 class d amplifiers. They are meant for sound reinforcement and/or live gigs. They have internal crossovers and can produce some serious watts! And they are super quiet, no buzzing or humming, and no heat. You can easily afford them and the fans never come on. At one point in a bi-amp setup I was using four of them in mono and throwing a combined 6000watts at my Infinity Kappas. The Crown XLS are great on the mids and highs—tube like, holographic—but for the lows they don’t have the dampening factor to stop the absolutely insanely designed lowend of the Infinity Kappas.
Honest I think the Crown XLS 1500 amps are very nice.
Try finding a pair of JBL 4408’s or 4406’s and use a Crown or two to drive them. You can get holography in style and on the cheap!
many people on this site would regard that system as ‘substandard’ or ‘not worthy’ of comment, but I have a feeling it works great.
i have been playing with Crown XLS 1500 and 1502 class d amplifiers. They are meant for sound reinforcement and/or live gigs. They have internal crossovers and can produce some serious watts! And they are super quiet, no buzzing or humming, and no heat. You can easily afford them and the fans never come on. At one point in a bi-amp setup I was using four of them in mono and throwing a combined 6000watts at my Infinity Kappas. The Crown XLS are great on the mids and highs—tube like, holographic—but for the lows they don’t have the dampening factor to stop the absolutely insanely designed lowend of the Infinity Kappas.
Honest I think the Crown XLS 1500 amps are very nice.
Try finding a pair of JBL 4408’s or 4406’s and use a Crown or two to drive them. You can get holography in style and on the cheap!