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Pro vs. Consumer Equipment

One of the best set-ups I ever heard was a Crown preamp feeding a McIntosh amp driving a custom built cabinet featuring JBL professional speakers. I've also read quite a bit about professional cables being a lot less expensive and just as good as consumer cables. Earlier today, D911 posted a thread on the professional ART SL-1 power amp.

Across the board, these professional solutions seem to be very high quality at a much lower price point than the consumer equipment. So what's your experience? How many of you are running professional equipment in your set-ups? What are some great recommendations? Does this work better with some kinds of music than with others? Thanks in advance.
ozfly
sean
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I agree Forever. Active multi-amplification and / or much simpler crossover design goes a LONG way in terms of what we hear from a system. That is primarily why i'm a "fan" of active crossover / mulit-amping and / or "true" full range single driver systems. Both get rid of ( or minimize ) the passive crossover networks and increase dynamics and transparency. It would be a "win/win" situation for home use if higher costs and greater complexity were not involved.

As far as Pro speakers go, most have very drastic flaws but do what they are designed to do quite well. Then again, the same goes for most well thought out home speakers. The two situations are VERY different from each other and the products are built to suite those individual needs. Sean
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david99
1,467 posts
 
The ART SLA-1 thread has been deleted!
Thoughts?
ozfly OP
887 posts
 
Hi David. It's still there under "What's the best amp you know of?" I recopied the thread address:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1053585689&read&h12&zzlD911&&#rest
david99
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Ozfly-Nope,its MIA
ozfly OP
887 posts
 
David, I'm at a loss to explain it -- I can get to the thread, but perhaps because I responded to it. I copied the thread address I gave you to the Address line in the internet bar and got there right away. I then searched under the name of the thread -- What's the best amp you know of -- and got there. Since you already tried the address, can you get there via the search routine?
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