Audio note cobra review11/24/2023 ![]() (Not a fan of them but it does drop to 1 ohm so it will blow up many amps - not Accuphase). If you are looking at higher power SS amplifiers I would look atĪccuphase is one of the few amp makers that is truly stable down to 1 ohm so it will happily drive hard to drive speakers like the famed Apogee Scintilla. If buying SS I'd go with Luxman over McIntosh - the opposite if buying tubes. I have generally liked the old JBL line for Rock and Pop You can buy these at outfits like Kenrick Sound in Japan. The lump bass presentation is practically geared for 70s rock like the JBL 4355. ![]() Rock has more dynamics but sounds often tinny and lean.Ĭlassic JBL was highly suited to 70s rock - it has a fill in the blanks fat sound that takes the lean away and the high box colouration and distortion of ALL JBL classi speakers adds a much needed warmth/Distortion to things similar to the distortion infused by 1970s rock bands themselves. So Pop often seems louder (compressed) but clean. Pop music often sounds like rubbish but a different sort of rubbish - it's processed but it doesn't go through cheap guitar amp/speaker combos. The problem with almost all rock music is that it is all played through crummy guitar amps and there is little in the way of pure instrument sound as there is in jazz and classical music. Point is loudspeakers and good audio gear can't fix bad recordings or bad CD players or bad amplifiers. One can make out the guitar playing and vocals much better. Largely because the distortion and blaring treble and booms were cleaned up. I recently attended a Guns and Roses concert in a pretty excellent modern venue built for concerts and the sound was one of the best I had heard but it sounds much better on my system at home. The sound was absolutely terrible - I left. And what did the dunderheads who rant the event do - they "amplified" the orchestra and ran them through "rock concert" speakers. I attended a Star Trek convention in Vegas and was rather excited to hear the Boston Pops perform the music of various Star Trek themes. Rock concert speakers are almost always pushed into distortion - the guitars are all fed into cheap guitar amps which are then pumped into massive horn speakers. If you want to recreate rock music - it would help to buy speakers that are brash, loud and generally obnoxious. I have been to several rock concerts - they all generally sound lousy - a good stereo has trouble sounding lousy enough for rock music. Again - the worst recordings in the hands of the best stereo equipment is not what high end audio is about. And yes you can pay the chef $50,000 but in the end he is working with ground beef. It's like going to a restaurant and ordering a Filet Mignon and then giving the chef a slab of ground beef and asking the chef to make the finest Filet Mignon in history. These recordings were made by stoners who were slapping stuff together and music from the Beatles, Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Grateful Dead and on it goes are generally rubbish sounding. Rock music (1960s and 1970s especially), I hate to tell you this, suffers from being some of the weakest most horribly recorded music in all of recorded music. Only heard them once at Upscale Audio.Ĭlick to expand.Thanks for the info on the Accuphase prices but the used prices in the US are the same price as what I can buy them new in HK.Īs an aside I think you are going through a lot of gear looking for equipment that is mainly good for rock music - and just using the word good isn't much help. Hence I'm keep coming back to Primaluna b/c it seems as foolproof as it gets with tube amps although I have limited exposure to that brand. Honestly I'm in love with the Line Magnetic sound signature and would love to have the lm219ia I'm just so worried that it breaks and in that case it would be extremely hard for me to ship it back to China for servicing. I'm looking for something under 50wpc for a pair of Proac tablette 10 speakers in a relatively small room for normal/late night listening levels. I have had in the USA a line Magnetic which I loved, but could not switch it to 220v, I should have bought another transformer. I have a contact in Japan so I am toying with the idea of getting a nice unit from there, only if switching it 220v would not be a hassle. I have been looking for a nice (preferably tube) amp for my system and I am wondering if there are reputable, established companies with dual voltage amps out there? Richard Austen mentioned the kingko amp which has a switch on the side for that.
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