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need your help on this one.....

any one have any experience with the pass line, and the plinius line.  
trying to decide between the a250.8 or the a350.8, if there is any real difference in them.  also going from the .5 line to the .8 line
and the same for the plinius, the sa100 for the sa 301.  is it worth it to go that far up in class, for the extra wattage.  and last the difference and better of the two would be very helpful.......thank you in advance.  I hope I explained myself, meds kicking in..........
kennesawjet
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seasoned
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soix - Same as pdreher; I left my SA100 in class AB mode during standby, then switched to class A for listening. I don't leave my X350.5 ON all the time because in standby it consumes 900W! yikes...
soix
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So, if I'm reading right, even when leaving the Plinius amps on in A/B mode they still took a long time to sound its best in Class A?
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pdreher
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No, as long as you left it on 24/7 in A/B mode, the warm-up once you toggle over to class A only took 20 minutes or so.
kennesawjet OP
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season,  how doe that x350.5 sound, and have you heard it compared to the x350.8
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ozzy
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I owned the Pass Labs X350.5 and thanks to Reno HiFI I also had in my home for about a month the Pass Labs X350.8 to do a direct comparison using my equipment, ears, etc.

To me, I thought the X350.8 sounded dull and closed in compared to the X350.5 version. So, I kept the X350.5.
However, I later sold it to buy Atma-Sphere M-60 mono blocks.

ozzy
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