Vintage Aragon 4004mkII - Dual Mono, 200 w into 8ohms, 400w into 4 ohm, 800w into 2 ohm. Designed by Dan D'Agostino who designed Krell. I have had mine driving Apogee Ribbons for over 30 years. Perfectly black silent background. They were several thousand when new - decades ago - but you can find them for about $800. Massive current. Dual Toroidal transformers - weighs the same as a VW.
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Hello, so as the title says, I'm looking for a 200+ wats amp (8ohm) that will double it's power down to 2 ohms but importantly also check all the audiophile boxes so strong, articulate, fast bass, smooth resolving mid-range and extended non fatiguing highs. It's proving to be rather difficult because hardly any manufacturers list output into 2ohms. Budget is around 4000$ so I'm looking at mostly used. Besides something like the Krell FPB 300/400 CX which can be had for that much , what else can be recommended?
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I love classic infinity towers from the Arnie Nudell era, and these came in various shades of amp-killing low impedance. That does limit a person's choice of amplifiers; still, there are plenty of options out there, from the obvious (Krell, Mark Levinson, Classé) to the obscure (Electron Kinetics Eagle 7). I don't consider this an issue at all. It just is what it is, and I'm more than happy to live with big honkin amps 😃
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@devinplombier I am not against big honkin Levinson or Krell amps...it’s just that the dividends you get even from the big honkin amps are higher with intelligent stuff than Arnie’s (the A word) archaic doozies. His other half, Paul McGowan was a much nicer guy and also has some nice speakers these days, in case you didn’t know. But, it would require you getting over some form of fascination (nothing to do with sonics or performance, it’s a pscyhological something else, i’d assume) with Arnie’s things. If you have Arnies, i assume you have some room to work with them and can deal with some setup complexity. Here are some more intelligent options with much greater dividends, if you can pair with your big honkin amps and some subs. https://www.danleysoundlabs.com/products/sh60/ https://www.pioneerproaudio.com/en/products/xy-series/xy-3b High tier engineering and sound, not that expensive either...all the glam crap you heard at axpona may feel like a honkin letdown, in comparison. The ’T’ guy also has the ability to slay your Arnies easily, of course. No amp killers.
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Deep, I see we’re going to have to agree to disagree, and that’s fine. I will say this, though: I don’t partake in the anti-pro https://www.me-geithain-highend.de/de/produkte/me-901k1.html The two links you gave look interesting. I’ll take a delve. Maybe we don't disagree so much after all
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Dear @lukaszwk : The integration of a self powered subwoofer through a HP filter is not " plug and play " All of us are accustom to many/some system noise and distortions levels and we like what we are listenning in each one of us home audio system and when the subs are well integrated ( using the subs software for that room integration, precise phase selector choosed, volume level, position and the like ) certainly that inmmediatly the the recordings ( dgital/analog ) through system play could sounds like a " crap " because we are missin " loosing " those noise/distortions that we were accustom too and that in the NEW SYSTEM already disappears or gone really lower and everything in the NEW system is different to our ears but if we made it all in good fashion and with care and patience the rewards are to many. We have to take in count that in the NEW system with way lower noise/distortions there is no place to quality " problems " in the different system links to hide its real performance and then we have to " fine tuning " the whole system each system link: preamp/linestage, amp, IC cables, electrical power lines, speaker position, even our seat positon, check the new " vibrations " that develops the good subs and many other things. As I said not " plug and play " and we need to accustom to the new better quality sound that now our system puts us narer to the recording and nearer to the MUSIC to enjoy that MUSIC as never before and of course that we have to hve some track recordings that we know as each finger of our hands to make the tests for that NEW system quality performance levels and that lower noise/distortion home room system levels.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
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