What does Current mean in a power amp???

Fbi: Hhang onto your hat. From what i hear through the grapevine, such a "feature" might not be that far down the road. The folks at A-gon have got some really "groovy" tricks up their sleeves from what i've been told.

Marakanetz: I have very limited experience with Plinius products. I have heard a Plinius preamp driving an SA-100 ( don't know if it was an original, Mk II, etc.. ) on one occasion. I was not familiar with the recordings but the front end was a three piece Metronome transport & matching tubed DAC with external power supply. The speakers were custom built sub / sat's with a ribbon tweeter and dual mid-woofers arranged in an MTM. Cables were Kimber if i remember correctly. While i don't know exactly which pieces contributed to what i remember hearing the most, all i know is that the sound was phenomenally hard and sterile and gave me listening fatigue in a matter of minutes. I've been told that the Plinius gear is very smooth and warm sounding, so it makes me wonder just how "bad" the rest of the gear would have had to have been to make things sound the way that it did. Sean
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To answer MBurns question........I am driving the base sub woofers of the Infinity RS 1_B's. It is described as a low impedence speaker....I believe it is 4 ohms.

Sean, Indeed Plinius gear(listened in several setups) is worm and musical. The situation you're describing I heard with Merylin speakers but than again I've never heard Merylins soft or musical.
SA-100 has a large range of operating in class A(upto 25W/ch) and has a closes to the tubes midrange. I assume that it will do the best with low-impedance speakers such as JM Lab 921, Thiel 3.6 and might be bright and hard driving high impedance speakers such as Coinsident.

BTW the most successful setup with SA100 I heard with Genesis 5, Sonic Frontiers SFL2, Basis 2000/Plinius Jarrah/Dynavector 20XH/; Analysis+ 9 speaker wire, AudioQuest Diamondblack interconnects almost everywhere.

Listening to "Stabat Mater" by unfamous and forgotten italian composer Pergolesi, despite being so skeptical auditioning classical music, the voices were so real and 50y.o. vinyl made me forget about clicks and pops and dive into the music everything else simply dissapeared.

Boy...did I get an ear full!!! Only joking folks! I must confess that most of what I read is very interesting but my exposure to technical knowledge is really not there! ( Business Major :)....any way...Sean answered this question by answering my reply to another thred elsewhere!! So Thanks again Sean and I will be on the look out for a Perreaux 3150 power amp (which has high current) needed to drive my sub woofer's (4 ohm load) Infinity's.