kirkus
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| What is a passive preamp? C'mon, guys, this is silly . . . terminological snobbery does not endear people to our hobby. I'm personally happy with the term "passive preamp", but it's not because of any ignorance of what's going on inside the box. It's for the same reason th... | |
| Optimizing McIntosh 7300s as monoblocks The output taps are very similar to the gear ratios on your auto transmission . . . in this case, how fast you can go depends on the balance of how high the engine redline is, and how steep a hill you're going up. If you correlate maximum audio po... | |
| Optimizing McIntosh 7300s as monoblocks Go ahead and try the 2-ohm taps, you won't hurt a thing. In this case, you will actually be drawing less current from the output stage, so the amp will breathe easier. Even if you were going the other way . . . well, Mac amps are pretty hard to bl... | |
| Which amp matches best my JM Lab Mezzo Utopia ? When I purchased mine back in 2000, I listened them with a pair of Lamm parallel single-ended amps, some Thor monos, a Simaudio solid-state amp, and my own amp of the time, a McIntosh MC500. I definately preferred both the Sim and the Mac compared... |