@jetter , they will be exactly where the JC 1 are. There are two cooling fans for each amp. I will know right away when a tube fails as the power in that channel will drop enough to skewer channel balance. It only takes a dB or two to change balance enough to alert me to a problem. I am not at all worried about it.
System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live
My current stereo system consists of Oracle turntable with SME IV tonearm, Dynavector XV cartridge feeding Manley Steelhead and two Snappers monoblocks running 15" Tannoy Super Gold Monitors. Half of vinyl records are 45 RMP and were purchased new from Blue Note, AP, MoFI, IMPEX and some others. While some records play better than others none of them make my system sound as good as a live band I happened to see yesterday right on a street. The musicians played at the front of outdoor restaurant. There was a bass guitar, a drummer, a keyboard and a singer. The electric bass guitar was connected to some portable floor speaker and drums were not amplified. The sound of this live music, the sharpness and punch of it, the sound of real drums, the cymbals, the deepness, thunder-like sound of bass guitar coming from probably $500 dollars speaker was simply mind blowing. There is a lot of audiophile gear out there. Some sound better than others. Have you ever listened to a stereo system that produced a sound that would make you believe it was a real live music or live band performance at front of you?
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Dear @atmasphere : I know that very weel and knowing the JC 1+ design I posted about.
Look, a really whealty friend of mine was and is in " love " with my quality level speakers so he took around 10 days of his time and fligth to Utha where he was with Wilson and Sound Labs and cost no object for him he decided to come back México bringing with him the top of the line Sound Labs and the pair of Parasound monobloks that were recomended by the desigbner him self.
He did not comment with me nothing about but around 3 weeks with the speaker/amp in his big dedicated room invited me to listen his system ( before the Sound Labs he owned Raidho beautiful DK speakers ) and was a surprise to me to found out the SL down there and till that day we try to improve the SL quality room levels performance ( obviously with subs. ). Well even all those he told me months latter at my place: " I really like my SL/JC but still prefers your vinatge system ".
In the other side he was a tube lover till SL designer gave the advice for the Parasound. You already know that after owned for 10 years tubes and from some time now I'm allergic to tubes ( any ) for my system no matters what.
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@rauliruegas If you were running an amp like that, I would expect that you might want to use subs. That is a very common experience people have with ESLs and solid state in general. If you have the right amp those speakers have excellent bass on their own! To be clear I was not making an indictment on the Parasound in any way other than what you seem to be corroborating here. |
Dear @atmasphere : After 4 months I suggested my friend try subs to look for an improvement and before that nothing was wrong with the bass but true self powered subs goes lower than what is need and SL can't goes down there. Latter on he changed the Majestic line for the top Ultimate that sounds alittle better but with almost same problem in the low bass. JC 1+ has no problem to handled at any SPL the Ultimate SL or any other speaker out there, problem is the SL low bass overall performance. R. |
@rauliruegas In this statement you are again confirming our experience. The large Sound Labs like the A1 and Majestic have no trouble whatsoever playing the deepest bass effortlessly. They go right down to 20Hz. But if the amplifier used to drive them behaves as a voltage source (for example, but not limited to the Parasound) it will be found to be bass shy. This is simply because the amp can't make power into such a high impedance in the bass as occurs in the Sound Lab. So it is common with Sound Lab owners who use solid state amps to look to subwoofers to get the bass right.
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