Bill. Earlier this year I had owned the Edge M8M with a pair of Wilson Sophia's and the Nuforce 9.02's . The Edge is a sonically pure amp (after lot's of warmup) and worked well with a bevy of Linestages that I sampled such as the ARC Ref2 , the Lamm Ll2 , Sonic Frontiers Line 3 and the remarkable Music First Passive . The Edge always had me wanting to turn up the volume , so clean was it's presentation ...never offensive .
I had use of a pair of Nuforce 9.02's with the option to buy and were extensively used with the Music First Passive . The amps took some time to warm up (24 hours) and I left them on full time . With the Wilson's and the ARC CD7 as a source , the depth , soundstage width and bass was nothing less then stellar . There was a see through quality and a sense of layering I had not experienced before .
The amps are user friendly , 7 lbs of WAF , run cool and can be run in Balanced mode . A word of caution , these are extremely power cord sensitive . With the wrong ones in place , the amps can sound hard and take on a digital glare . I used ESP , Audience and settled on the Marigo Ultra Ref 2 . The IC's I used were the Cardas Golden Ref in XLR's .
I am of the old school , big is better and it took me about a week to settle them into the system . I'd take them out of the boxes , put them in for an hour , put them back in their boxes . It took lending out my Edge for a week to really give these amps a try and I was glad I did . Bang for the buck , they are remarkable .
I would have kept these amps but the arrival of a pair of Genesis 501's precluded that . According to the manual , these are not to be used in a biamp situation in which the sub(s) amps signal is derived from the Nuforce speaker leads such as the REL or Genesis . Apparently this will create havoc and I do not know why nor understand this .
Different amps , different sound . You will probably be able to sell The Edge for around what you will have to pay for the Nuforce's . Cabling and sourcing may be a little more trying than with the Edge . One thing for sure , your first impressions will be nothing less than jaw dropping , the bass is something else .
Hope this helps and good luck .
I had use of a pair of Nuforce 9.02's with the option to buy and were extensively used with the Music First Passive . The amps took some time to warm up (24 hours) and I left them on full time . With the Wilson's and the ARC CD7 as a source , the depth , soundstage width and bass was nothing less then stellar . There was a see through quality and a sense of layering I had not experienced before .
The amps are user friendly , 7 lbs of WAF , run cool and can be run in Balanced mode . A word of caution , these are extremely power cord sensitive . With the wrong ones in place , the amps can sound hard and take on a digital glare . I used ESP , Audience and settled on the Marigo Ultra Ref 2 . The IC's I used were the Cardas Golden Ref in XLR's .
I am of the old school , big is better and it took me about a week to settle them into the system . I'd take them out of the boxes , put them in for an hour , put them back in their boxes . It took lending out my Edge for a week to really give these amps a try and I was glad I did . Bang for the buck , they are remarkable .
I would have kept these amps but the arrival of a pair of Genesis 501's precluded that . According to the manual , these are not to be used in a biamp situation in which the sub(s) amps signal is derived from the Nuforce speaker leads such as the REL or Genesis . Apparently this will create havoc and I do not know why nor understand this .
Different amps , different sound . You will probably be able to sell The Edge for around what you will have to pay for the Nuforce's . Cabling and sourcing may be a little more trying than with the Edge . One thing for sure , your first impressions will be nothing less than jaw dropping , the bass is something else .
Hope this helps and good luck .