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| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s I'm willing to spend up to $4000 (on agon)... just trying to explore the options and figure out which of those might be worth "auditioning" (i.e., purchasing used and reselling if they don't compare favorably to my current XA-30.5/INT-30A). I'm go... | |
| Ayre V-Kxe and Thiel 2.4s Sorry V-5xe... stupid typos. | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 As you know the 60 W @ 4 Ohms of the XA30.5 was the Class A output, the XA-30.5 would actually put out another 130 or so Watts in Class B @ 4 ohms for a total of about 190 Watts @ 4 Ohms. ~~~Is it the case that many Tube amps don't provide more po... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Here's a quote from a discussion about Mac autotransformers:The output autoformers have different windings in them so the 2,4 & 8 ohm taps are like 3 different amps that are optimized for speakers with the corresponding 2,4 & 8 ohm resista... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 A Chinese amp with an unusual tube, that will put out less power than the amp you currently find to inadequately power the speakers your driving? Good luck with that! ~~~Ha... well, I see you have a strong opinion on that! I thought I was comparin... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Also, unsound... in a different thread, I read that the Mcintosh amps (at least the big ones) still double down as impedance drops. So basically, a 402 would give you 400W out of each of the different taps, but if you had a 4 Ohm load on the 8 Ohm... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 After saying I wasn't interested in any tube amps, I did run across these guys and become interested... The eastern electric 160W mono-block tube amps:http://www.stereomojo.com/EasternElectricM156TubeMonoblockAmplifiersReviewtm/EasternElectricM156... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Cal3713...if there is a way to audition the X250.5 before purchasing it (or maybe negotiating a time frame in which you can return the amp if it's not a good fit and just be out the shipping costs)?~~~I'll just be buying used and hopefully reselli... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Ohhh, and obviously the low end isn't my primary focus (hence even trying the XA30.5 to start with)... imaging is really the most important target as far as I'm concerned. | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 The original owner of my 2.4s used a McIntosh MC-402... which he certainly loved (I think he was still going to use it with a new pair of 3.7s). Wish folks had had a warmer response to the idea of the Aleph 2s, that would have saved over 1k over t... | |
| Thiel 2.4 and Pass Labs Amps I ended up asking this same basic question at the tail end of an old thread of mine, and at least a couple people there also seconded Pass' recommendation away from the Alephs for this load/speaker... so I guess the 250.5 is seeming more like the ... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 What do you folks think about something like a set of Aleph 2s? Quite a bit cheaper than the X250.5, not as much power, but at 200W into 4 ohms, they should be a better mate to the 2.4s than the XA-30.5... I did mention briefly the possibility of ... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 This thread's been dead for a while, but I thought I would chime in with some conclusions now that I've lived with the XA-30.5 and Thiel 2.4s for a while. Anyway, on these speakers the amp is spectacular, beautiful, quiet, delicate, with great ima... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 For educational purposes, is there a reason that low output impedance is "good" besides the fact that that's what the Pass requires for system matching?And I do like the features of the Sonic Frontiers Line 3 that I was reading about... | |
| Pre-amp suggestions for Thiel 2.4/Pass Labs XA30.5 Thanks unsound. Despite it's auspicious start, this thread has ended up being useful, both for recommendation and educational purposes... |