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I heard a KSA300 driving Apogee Calipers and some big Usher Compass Dancers in the same session and in both cases I was impressed. With a Krell X64 DAC and matching pre.
The lower KAV (250a is the one I know) series is still good and fantastic on Jerry's MBLs. Not so good on my speakers I have to say.
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I imagine this one would sound good on your Apogees, as in sweet and clean, but at only 50 watts I doubt it would do the business on the wallop side of things.
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Didn't know you had one.Originally Posted by Macca
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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I have two. Neither works anymore but when they did...lets put it this way when people say digital playback has advanced massively over the years I have a quiet chuckle. And the sheer weight behind the sound makes most other players sound like toys in comparison. It was really hard to wean myself back to ordinary players when they died.
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Shame they don't work Martin. Will you get them looked at?
I wouldn't mind trying the SL-P1300, so I could run the digi out through my DAC. Dunno if they ever did that one in 240v though.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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Dont think you can get the bits now for them alas. Surprised they dont start making them again. make a fortune selling the bits alaone far less the full machine. I guess the plant etc has been disposed of though.
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Alan says he might have a look at them some day. I'm convinced the issue is not the lasers but some component that has died, or a connector ribbon that has failed. I've had that before with cd players. You have the laser replaced because that is what everyone says, thinking lasers wear out like a stylus. But the fault persists, so it wasn't the laser.
EDIT having looked into it, it is possible to get almost everything but laser and mechanism.
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I really must be going deaf... Into the IMF Compacts in the workroom, it was easy to get the middle bias lamps alight on the KSA50S and on funky bass stuff, the blue full-on lamps came on and the case started cooking nicely in half an hour or so. The Spendors did the same thing and the red bias lamps came on at quite moderate levels, the enclosed cabinet setting making things too hot for me after 30 minutes - the top plate got very hot and let alone the heatsinks. Obviously, free space (that I couldn't give it) and a cool room would pay dividends and maybe the Focals are rather more efficient than the Spendors, the BC2's being around 84db I think. Don't worry, I didn't ever strain the amp thermally, 'cos I checked it every five minutes or so and switched off when it got too warm. The plateau bias does mean the amp cools down quickly when not being driven hard and it'll idle barely warm all day, unlike its predecessors, which were 'full on' all the time.
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The Focals are 90dB, and not a particularly difficult load compared to some WAF towers, impedance gets a bit low in the bass but obviously not a problem for an amp that can double down.
Not managed to get any of the LEDs to light up yet
Current Lash Up:
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How low do they get do you reckon martin.?
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Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
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