I own a Musical Concepts modified Adcom 555. It has all Burr Browns,Black Diamond resisters and Teflon caps in the musical chain. It is wired with Van den Hul Silver and is dual mono. It has a cardas reference chord wired into it. It is a great match for my Vandersteen 3 Signatures and I have it paired with the Adcom The Gold 750. Every once in a while a Musical Concepts modified Adcom or Hafler amps shows up on E bay.
How do Adcom power amps sound?
Hi,
My system is : PSB Stratus Mini, Cambrdige AZUR 540a and a Toshiba 3950 ( unmodded) in a 20x20 room with the speakers placed about 6 feet apart and mostly listened to in the close range.
If you arent familiar with my speakers they are a pretty tough load, 4ohm at 86db.
My amp only puts out 40-50 watts into 8ohm and 65 into 4ohm, as you can tell its having trouble powering my speakers, so im considering buying a power amp for them.
Im on a pretty tight budget , and the Adcom power amps seem to be priced right, so im considering something like the GFA-555 ( 200 wpc 8ohm and 325ohm).
Does anyone have any experiance with this unit, or similiar Adcom units? How do they sound, would it be an upgrade, power and quality wise over my current cambridge amp?
Id probabaly use the cambrdige as a pre- amp untill i can afford something better.