richieb

Expand your horizons - try two(2x). Just sayin’ . Hi, I’m Rich. I’m here to help you - 😎

I have two Benchmark AHB2 power amps for sale, silver face. I’ve owned a few amps in my day and these are the quietest, most transparent I’ve experienced. Music springs from a dead black background. One hundred watts each stereo block, 360 watts when used as monoblocks. Balanced only. Both units are mint, sporadic use with factory packaging, manuals. $2350 for one $4600 for two I believe you will find my feedback here first rate. Thank you

I generally keep several amps in the rotation and currently each one sounds very good, SS and tube. Each presents different but very good. I picked up a Decware Tori IV about a year ago, it is not in the current lineup. It was also very good, not the most quiet and required a forest of tubes. It wasn’t so much better as to differentiate itself from the rest. I won’t wait 45 minutes at a restaurant let alone 2 years for an amp. But that’s me. Obviously 12 pages of back logged customers feel differently - -

— Alan Eaton 2a3 monoblocks —

Quiet amps (those with a very low noise floor) reign supreme with high efficiency horn speakers. Just because an amp is horn quiet doesn’t mean it’s a good listen. Unless there is an opportunity to A-B a particular amplifier one might assume a quiet amp, most any Class D, is truly a good sounding amp. I owned Hypex nc400 monoblocks and Benchmark ABH2 at the same time. Both being dead silent. There was no question (through my ears) the Benchmark was a much cleaner sounding amp, I believe the audiophile term is transparent. If you want a quiet, “transparent “ amp think Benchmark. Granted they are several times the price of many of the above mentioned brands but hey, we’re talkin’ quiet amps, not amps based on price. I also have several tube amps that are silent through big ol’ horns.

— much like Bonehead designed speakers forum jail ain’t that bad - it’s “okay”.

I’ll take ‘em - all.

I also owned a Torii IV and while it wasn’t the quietest tuber I’ve owned there was more “noise” going on than say my ST35 or QS Horn Monos both of which are dead silent through LS and Jubilees. But there was no overt hum as you are describing. The absolute forest of tubes on the Torii and enough background noise to annoy me led to selling it. Idontknow is right about the Kenny Russell ST35 though, it is an exceptionally nice piece.

— or Captain Beefheart? Tube amp builder extraordinaire.

- What an opportunity to begin a sub stack thread on motor oil. But to answer the 3M to 8M question - don’t do it. More than likely those pesky electrons will run out of steam around the 6M mark leaving you with no signal to the speakers.

- back and better than ever.

- How pedestrian

If you’re certified in a Gulfstream G700 I’ve got your plane. My pilot is currently unavailable. Sorry, leaving from MCI (KC) only. Takeoff is 0800 Saturday. Sharp.

This is the age of catering to and protecting those whose lives center around stirring the pot, spewing useless misinformation all while using the interweb as their indisputable source. No different here.

— “give me a minute. Checking Google”.

That’s there’s funny. Ain’t a speaker he’s not an expert on. I heard rumor that prior to the passing of James B Lansing he had the foresight to name his famous tweeter “001”. Coincidence, I think not -

Hehehe - he said “members”. The perfect description -

“Here we go”. Yep - there they went.

We pay enough, too much for Dish. Paying extra whether watching my home team or not I will Never pay the networks and NFL ransom money to watch football.

“You haven’t found the right tube amp”. Make your next purchase a quality shovel as you are about to begin digging a rather large, deep and expensive rabbit hole. You may run into one of us during your dig —

Yeah? Have you bought new, quality tires lately? It’s not pleasant. I’d much rather buy another amplifier.

Hot water = good. Cold water = bad. And for the most popular and irritating of forum(s) quote - pics or it didn’t happen -

- Who - ?

I’m not sure how the 2a3 will satisfy someone “longing” for a high power SET? A great sounding tube/amp, yes, high power? Not so much -

I also had the J2 but let it go. I’ve owned the F3 longer than any amp I’ve owned. They are very similar although the J was bit more powerful , 25 vs 15 for the F.