LTA - MZ2 Driving solid state amps.

Oops I forgot to mention the sources,

Ps audio Direct stream dac
Wilson Bensch Circle turntable
Zyx airy 3 cartridge
Soundsmith Scp-2 phono preamp


Kenny.

Kenny,

the Bencemark AHB2 is sounding great, a very good SS amp. It sounds good with the MZ2 but yes you do have to use adaptors since there is only XLR inputs.

Lance

Lance,

Thank's for the update,I still have the AHB2 on my short list.
Would you put the AHB2 as being neutral or on the slightly warm side of neutral driven by the MZ2 in your system of course.

I ordered my MZ2 with the linear pwr supply and it looks like that is the most popular.I haven't heard of anybody getting the switch mode.Kinda interesting.

Enjoy the music,

Kenny.

Kenny,

The AHB is extremely neutral but can be warmed up with a tube preamp but only slightly warmer with the MZ2 in the chain. I wouldn't exactly call the MZ2 warm but tube rolling definitlty can change things. Today I'm took the MZ2 out and used balanced cables direct from the Modwright Sonica. With the Sonica's tube stage it seems to smooth things out and sound very good this way as well.

i originally got the basic switching power supply and the new linear power supply is definitly superior. There is a big difference between the cheap wall wart switching PS and the extremely complicated switching PS that's in the ZOTL40, this Type of PS is better than the best Linear PS. David Berning is the master of designing switching power supplies.

Lance, for clarification for others, I assume that was a typo and your phono stage is a Parasound JC-3+.  I doubt a pair of JC-1s would be needed in that set up.