bill_k
Responses from bill_k
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! In response to viber6 questioning Boulder’s status, not sure where you might have heard that they're out of business but don’t believe that to be true. They've recently introduced a new phono stage and have been participating in audio shows as doc... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @minorl - After some advanced searches of this thread, I found that it was the Boulder 2060 and related discussion started on this page. Initial impressions were very favorable as I recalled, stating it had the best bass, control, midrange, etc. a... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Yes, WC had a Boulder power amp along his journey. Was pretty impressed with it if I recall, but ended up moving on... his comments are documented somewhere in this thread. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! When running stereo amps in bridged mono mode (like the Benchmark AHB2 amps) the load impedance seen by the amplifier is effectively halved. So for example if you're running an extremely low 1 ohm load as Viber6 is, bridged AHB2 amps would effecti... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @grey9hound - I guess I should have just left it to @whitecamaross to respond as he did. While some other posters have suggested specific products it seemed to me that you were asking to change the entire direction of the thread by focusing on a c... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @grey9hound - With all due respect this is @whitecamaross thread which is focused on his search for gear in the upper echelon of performance. Of course there are financial considerations for anyone considering such products, and if you’d like ther... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! For those interested in the new Merrill Audio Element 118 amps: http://enjoythemusic.com/superioraudio/equipment/1018/Merrill_Audio_Element_118_Monoblock_Amplifiers_Review.htm | |
| cdp repair in Chicago I believe the audio repair shop you're referring to in Arlington Heights is Midwest Audio, and they do have a very good reputation. I'd give them a ring to discuss the possibility of such a repair since it's a bit of a trip from your location sout... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Of course the GaN devices are in the output stage and therefore in the signal path, I never meant to infer otherwise. What I was questioning was the actual signal bandwidth of the complete amp design, since with their confirmed low pass filtering ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! There are more details on the Merrill Audio Element amps at the link below, but there is still no mention of their signal bandwidth. There is however confirmation from the designer that their output is low pass filtered. https://www.whatsbestforum... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @viber6 - Regarding high bandwidth amp designs, with all due respect I believe you may be confusing two different things with your statement: "The coming Merrill Elements have Ghz bandwidth to put Spectral’s Mhz bandwidth to shame." Spectral elect... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Yes, the Rowland 925 mono amps use a Class D output stage along with their proprietary power factor corrected SMPS. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @dguitarnut - Just to clarify your setup I don't believe that you're actually streaming Tidal from your iPad, but rather just using the iPad to control the Lumin U1. Tidal is streaming over your network to the Lumin which then provides its digital... | |
| What time do you wear? As far as desirability among watch aficionados and retained value I'd definitely go with Omega over Breitling, but both make fine watches. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! techno_dude - There's usually more than one way to engineer a design, and it's rare when one approach is best in all aspects. Trade-offs are generally involved and in audio it's further complicated since subjective preferences are so significant. ... |