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ICE Amps for classical music?

I listen to classical orchestral music at heavy volume. I detest reproduced music for always sounding more or less electronic and not acoustic. Real music is beautiful in a way reproduced music--so far at least-- never is. I have become curious about Wyred4sound amps because of low price and high watts. I am wondering if any of you "mostly classical" listeners have heard these amps and feel they do no more damage to music than amps which are NOT ICE amps. I am using a Plinius SA100 now and have used a VAC 100/100, a Bedini Classic 100/100, a Music Reference RM-9, and other tube and solid state amps. They all had their pluses and minuses, of course, but for least electronic, clearly the Bedini was the winner. So what about ICE amps? Rpfef  (Threads | Answers | This Thread) 01-14-09

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Click title to read one, or click date to read all below it. 01-15-09   I have heard two, but not the one you mention. at the time, ...   Mrtennis 01-15-09   Ice amps sound as diverse as class a ss amps, or any other ...   Guidocorona 01-15-09   Interesting that you should mention the wyred 4 sound amps. ...   Curriemt11 01-15-09   If you are interested in class d why not ucd amps like the c ...   Stereo 01-15-09   An ice amp has to mount a great speaker to convey reality. ...   Muralman1 01-15-09   Interesting metaphor, muralman, i have the gilmore raptor i ...   Ait 01-15-09   Curriemt11- were you able to tame the speakers with the bril ...   Rleff 01-15-09: Muralman1 Ait - Yippy yi aye! """""In my opinion, they are much more the "straight wire with gain" amplifier than any sort of sound-shaper.""""" You couldn't be more right. Yours post is a great example why there are so many opinions of class D amps. I too use tubes. They are in my non oversampling DAC. Never would I care to run my ICE amps direct. I prefer the romance of tubes, and the frankness of NOS. Muralman1  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread) 01-15-09   Rleff, only to a degree. if i turned the control down far e ...   Curriemt11 01-15-09   Further info: i use a tube preamp (ai modulus 3a) and shahin ...   Rpfef 01-15-09   Curriem11, i beg to differ. my speakers are the infamous 1 o ...   Muralman1 01-15-09   Muralman, what are you differing about? i referred specific ...   Curriemt11 01-15-09   Curriemt11, you have a wonderful system. i love the artful s ...   Muralman1 01-15-09   Rpfef, my experience is that some icepower amps can render ...   Guidocorona 01-16-09   Hello guido, how do you compare "312" vs "re ...   Simontju 01-16-09   Ucd modules in amps like the channel island d-200 are slight ...   Eldartford 01-16-09   Eldartford - i'm not sure if icepower is sensitive to speake ...   Kijanki 01-16-09   Hi simon, excellent question. . . to which i can't give an a ...   Guidocorona 01-16-09   Hey guidocorona my h2o/fire/an system has all the qualities ...   Muralman1 01-17-09   The best way to optimize the performance of ice amps is to p ...   Mrtennis 01-17-09   Another attempted witicism from one of the most unenlightene ...   Audiofeil 01-17-09   Hi rpfef. i've owned the wyred4sound st1000 for about three ...   Bezimienny 04-22-10   Yes (assuming used with speakers that benefit form high powe ...   Mapman 04-22-10   Mapman, i see you followed the testament of an agoner from d ...   Muralman1 04-22-10   "i listen to classical orchestral music at heavy volume ...   Dob 04-25-10   how can classical music sound natural at a heavy volume ?   Weseixas 04-25-10   Weseixas, ever been in a concert hall where 130 musicians a ...   Guidocorona 04-25-10   "how can classical music sound natural at a heavy volum ...   Dob 04-25-10   "you will be surpised to find out that spl at your ear ...   Kijanki 04-25-10   Guidocorona.. yes many times and i tend to get seats that a ...   Weseixas 04-25-10   even with compression, you can get a pretty good imaginary ...   Weseixas 04-25-10   "yes, but recorded music is compressed - tailored for a ...   Dob 04-25-10   I think the max dynamic range in redbook cd format is 96db. ...   Mapman 04-26-10   People who run 7 inch woofers and then complain about dynami ...   Eldartford 04-26-10   Eldartford - i think we're mixing sound level and dynamic ra ...   Kijanki 04-26-10   Hello eldartford: what amplifiers do you use in your system? ...   Dob 04-26-10   Eldartford - i think we're mixing sound level and dynamic ra ...   Kijanki 04-26-10   Oops - sorry for posting twice.   Kijanki 04-26-10   Dob.... my front channels (which is all i mentioned above) h ...   Eldartford 04-26-10   Eldartford - i've been (long, long time ago) at some very lo ...   Kijanki 04-26-10   I agree with eldartford on how dynamic swings depend on how ...   Muralman1 04-26-10   very few systems "grow" this is the ability to h ...   Weseixas 04-26-10   as someone who listens to a lot of classical symphonic music ...   Almarg 04-26-10   Kijanki... as i mentioned even when the spl is only moderate ...   Eldartford 04-26-10   one have to be grateful for good things in life. i'm partic ...   Weseixas 04-26-10   Eldartford - not only that small portion of classical requir ...   Kijanki 04-26-10   Muralman1, as i am a dvorak fan, what performance of the 9t ...   Guidocorona 04-26-10   Guido -- pending muralman's answer, if you don't already hav ...   Almarg 04-26-10   i would be more concerned with the structural integrity of m ...   Almarg 04-26-10   Guidocorona, i have 3 different dvorak 9th. the cdr someone ...   Muralman1

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