"The Dartzeel lacked dynamics and bass control for me"
i really wonder what speakers made this happen to an individual situation. many many reports worldwide on the Dart108 having great bass.
was the low impedance setting tried?
that there are speakers which drop to 2.8 ohms and have an disastrous impedance phaseturn as well; just unbelievable in 2009 year. they did this in 1984 ok.
just look at the measurements in Stereophile by John Atkinson.
by all means just about all speakers have humps of 3 to 5 dB at the 100 hertz region, most speakers drop down to 2.5 > 3.5 ohms as if a common thing. the bad impedance phase behaviour upon that 3 ohm is just kill to any good tube amp.
back to topic.
i have owned the Stradivari as well for quite some time. many amps failed to drive it. in the end a big Accuphase really took it on.
have listened to some late model ML mono amps too, but i never experienced them as touching and moving.
for me they sound just the way they look. grey. ymmv.
Mike,
maybe the only SET amplifiers which can possibly make you sell the DartZeel 108 ..
to my highest recommendation, and out of real world experience with these beasts:
WAVAC 833V1.3
they can make time stand still at least it did for me.
i really wonder what speakers made this happen to an individual situation. many many reports worldwide on the Dart108 having great bass.
was the low impedance setting tried?
that there are speakers which drop to 2.8 ohms and have an disastrous impedance phaseturn as well; just unbelievable in 2009 year. they did this in 1984 ok.
just look at the measurements in Stereophile by John Atkinson.
by all means just about all speakers have humps of 3 to 5 dB at the 100 hertz region, most speakers drop down to 2.5 > 3.5 ohms as if a common thing. the bad impedance phase behaviour upon that 3 ohm is just kill to any good tube amp.
back to topic.
i have owned the Stradivari as well for quite some time. many amps failed to drive it. in the end a big Accuphase really took it on.
have listened to some late model ML mono amps too, but i never experienced them as touching and moving.
for me they sound just the way they look. grey. ymmv.
Mike,
maybe the only SET amplifiers which can possibly make you sell the DartZeel 108 ..
to my highest recommendation, and out of real world experience with these beasts:
WAVAC 833V1.3
they can make time stand still at least it did for me.