Recommend Me A Very High Power Amplifier

[jandl100]

Natural Mystic

Que? - what / who is that?

[User211]

Que? - what / who is that?

Bob M. Ever livin', ever givin', Jah Rasterfari Bob, that is.

Spotify it.

[jandl100]

Ah, it is the BobM I found on t'Spot.
OK - on my playlist.

[User211]

Ah, it is the BobM I found on t'Spot.
OK - on my playlist.

You need a few beers and the finest Jamaican herb to get Bob's respect from above I'm sure. Never mind, tis great without

[cyclopse]

The protection is elaborate. So elaborate in triode mode they'd shutdown every time I played Natural Mystic at volume - the intro bit that just gets louder and louder has a bass kick drum that Ayon's engineers obviously decided was too much! Superb track that, though, the Apogees just freakin' love it.

I cannot remember if a change to the 4 or 8 ohm tap was needed to trip the output?

[Marco]

They are good amps, Marco, They really are.

I'll take your word for it, mate, as I haven't heard them. It's just that any piece of hi-fi equipment referred to as "very polite and not particularly dynamic" I tend to steer (widely) clear of

I'd like to hear them driving my Tannoys, which are a completely different load from your 'gees....

Marco.

[User211]

I cannot remember if a change to the 4 or 8 ohm tap was needed to trip the output?

It happened on both with enough welly. Pentode survived it - always, at any level the speaker could handle.

Which got me into a conversation with Jon. I can't for the life of me understand how my 211 amps drive the Aps as well as they do.

Factual shite: I believe the spec on the Ayon site is still for the previous Orthos iteration i.e. the first one. They just might be under rating them though. Reviews of the II version seem sure 400 Watts is the pentode delivery, with around 250 in triode?

[User211]

You heard it with KT120s. It's now been fitted with KT150s.

Marco.

Fact police says otherwise. IMHO it was WAY before you got KT120s.

[User211]

I'll take your word for it, mate, as I haven't heard them. It's just that any piece of hi-fi equipment referred to as "very polite and not particularly dynamic" I tend to steer (widely) clear of

I'd like to hear them driving my Tannoys, which are a completely different load from your 'gees....

Marco.

Well I guess you never will. I'd like to hear them driving Tom's Tannoys because that's the best pair of Tannoys I have ever heard, apart from Kingdom Royals, which are TBH a lot better than even Tom's.

If yours are as good as Tom's you're a lucky chappie.

I think they'd beat the copper amps driving Tannoys or 66s. My hunch, anyway. And by a margin I'd wager. But that's just my opinion.

[Marco]

Ah yes, I stand corrected... That would've been when I had my original GEC KT88s

So many changes (improvements) to the amp since then! However, the core parts of my system (as demonstrated at that show six years ago - how time flies) have remained the same, and I have no desire to change any of them.

That's the satisfaction of owning a well-sorted and settled system!

Marco.