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How much do you want to spend ? A really good 20W Amp is more than you can use Schiit looks like they have really good 20W Class A Solid State Their products bench test well, performance matters You would have to come up with a pre amp, depending on what you listen to If all digital, run a DAC with a volume control or passive direct 1/100 Watt is loud listening volume 1/2 Watt is screaming 2 Watts will take you head off Passive pre amp $49 DAC on one input, phono on 2nd input https://www.schiit.com/products/sys Schiit also has formidable DACs starting around the $700 number Schiit Aegir Continuity™ Power Amplifier $799 Stereo, 8 Ohms: 20W RMS per channel Stereo, 4 Ohms: 40W RMS per channel Mono, 8 ohms: 80W RMS Frequency Response: 20Hz-20Khz, -0.1db, 3Hz-500KHz, -3dB THD: <0.01%, 20Hz-20KHz, at 20W RMS into 8 ohms IMD: <0.01%, CCIR, at 20W RMS into 8 ohms SNR: >112db, A-weighted, referenced to full output Damping Factor: >100 into 8 ohms, 20-20kHz Gain: 12 (22dB) Input Sensitivity: AKA Rated Output (Vrms)/Rated Gain. Or, 14.3/12. You do the math. Input Impedance: 22k ohms SE, 44k ohms balanced Crosstalk: >95dB, 20-20kHz Inputs: L/R RCA jacks for stereo input, single XLR for mono input Topology: Fully complementary, all-BJT, current feedback, no coupling capacitors or DC servos with Continuity™ constant transconductance output stage Oversight: microprocessor-controlled monitoring and management of critical operational points, including DC offset, with standby mode and relay shut-down for overcurrent, thermal, and other faults Power Supply: 600VA transformer with dual mono main rails, plus boosted, regulated supply to input, voltage gain and driver stages, plus separate, isolated and regulated rails for microprocessor management. Power Consumption: 450W maximum Size: 9” x 13” x 3.875” Audio Precision APx555 Report for Aegir Continuity™: Benefits Beyond Class A Aegir is our first Continuity speaker amplifier, extending a technology we introduced with the Lyr 3 headphone amp. Technically, Continuity is a way to eliminate transconductance droop outside of the Class A bias region, and extend the benefits of Class A biasing. It also solves the NPN and PNP device mismatch problem, since it uses both NPN and PNP devices on both rails. It’s still a very hot-running amp, though, with over 10W of Class A standing bias. A True No-Excuses Design Like Vidar, Aegir uses an exotic current-feedback topology, as well as a 100% linear power supply (with 7 separate voltage rails and 600VA transformer) and microprocessor oversight to eliminate capacitors and DC servos in the signal path. No Class D, no switching supplies, no fans, no compromises, nothing in the signal path but music—for a three-figure price tag. Power That Scales Aegir provides 20W into 8 ohms, doubling to 40W into 4 ohms. Run mono, and you’ll see 80W into 8 ohms. Best of all, Continuity ensures you see Class-A-like performance at all these power outputs. Convenient Standby Mode On Aegir, we’ve added a front-panel button to put the amp into Standby mode. This de-biases the output stage completely and reduces standing power consumption significantly. This keeps the rest of the amp up and running, without massive heat output. Designed and Built in California By “designed and built in California" this is what we mean: the vast majority of the total production cost of Aegir—chassis, boards, transformers, assembly, etc—goes to US companies manufacturing in the US. Our chassis are made minutes from our facility. Our PCBs are done just over the hill from us, or done in NorCal. Our transformers are also made in California. You get the picture. 5-Year Warranty and Easy Return Policy Aegir is covered by a 5-year limited warranty that covers parts and labor. And if you don’t like your Aegir, you can send it back for a refund, minus 5% restocking fee, within 15 days of receiving it.

Bring your own amp and music you know with some short cables you may be on a table top Take the grills off and inspect the surrounds and speakers Look at photos of H2s with the Grills off on line, so you know what they look like Check the rears for the inspection stickers and serial numbers

14x17 room sound is great First room I had them in was approx 18x30 10-12 ft apart on the 18ft wall sounded great aimed straight ahead the furniture was on the opposite wall, people couldn't believe how good it sounded

Bills Prime Seafood and Steaks, no view just good food I would eat here 3 times a day Chincoteague Island, Virginia Wallops Island NASA launch site is across the river, has some good displays Children's novel if your are taking small children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_of_Chincoteague Menu https://www.billsseafoodrestaurant.com/menu

Rio Grande Ft Collins, Old Downtown Courtyard in the middle of the block, is nice when the weather is good Food is good quality standard Mexican food https://riograndemexican.com/

Boulder Dushanbe Tea House I would eat here 3 times a day during the summer https://www.boulderteahouse.com/dinner-menu Check out the Tea Menu https://www.boulderteahouse.com/tea-menu

Peru, not yet.....

Sounds like Wife won't let him keep them.

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Rolls Belari has lots of options for desktop and rack pro gear gets generally good reviews, I haven't owned one but would consider them if I needed product Tube and SS phono pre amps MM and MC https://rolls.com/products/bellari ART DJPREII Phono Preamplifier This one is also worth looking at, very popular https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71rdJHaRTSS.pdf https://www.amazon.com/ART-DJPREII-Phono-Preamplifier/dp/B000AJR482/ref=psdc_689995011_t2_B002TD4GME

I ran a CD player directly into a Yamaha MX-600 amp sounded great, the amp had gain control Same CD player into a Yamaha DSP A-700 early Surround amp, which has a volume attenuater built in, sounded great. Any amp that has pre amp in can be fed directly from your DAC, CD player or other. There is also the direct button on lots of gear that bypasses all the pre amp tone and eq controls, sounds clearer. On surround amps that have the direct feature, check the block diagram, decoding in the amps DAC then on the bus to the amp section sounds quite good

Report back on the sound quality Class D has come a long way

Pizza A Metro Da Gigino L'Università della Pizza Corso Giovanni Nicotera, 15, Vico Equense NA, Italy

La Fazenda Via Marechiaro Napoli Italy, so many great restaurants ....

Angelica Grill My business contact in SP, moved in across the street from this place, after 3 years he still had the original six pack of beer in his fridge with zero food. Sao Paulo, has the most good restaurants in the world IMHO Original recipe yields 1 servings Ingredient Checklist ½ lime, quartered 1 teaspoon white sugar 2 ½ fluid ounces cachaca 1 cup ice cubes

Joe's Stone Crab Miami Beach

Kantjil & De Tijger Amsterdam

Good French TV Series follows Detectives through the French system as they work cases. Lots of the personality stereo types, which are part of French Cinema First season they are carried away with the gross crime scenes FX, dial it back a bit in later episodes Enough seasons to get you to March if you keep it to one a day. Spiral (French: Engrenages, pronounced [ɑ̃ɡʁəˈnaʒ]) is a French television police procedural and legal drama series following the work and the private lives of Paris police officers and lawyers and judges at the Palais de Justice, Paris. It was created by Alexandra Clert for the TV production company Son et Lumière. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477507/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

CQ An Art Movie about making an Art Movie while making a 1960s French SciFi movie. "The film is an homage to 1960s European spy/sci-fi spoofs like 1968's Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik" I cheated and watched on-line.

Either here or in the AK Klipsch Threads we had two people looking for some encouragement to buy some LaScalas, which are quite large. Both had the same home harmony concerns too. Somewhat sheepishly the poster did move on the LaScalas He worked and his wife was home Wasn't sure how she would react After a few months, someone Bumped the thread to ask him what happended After two months he asked his wife if he should sell them, wifey had replied "Over my dead body" Turned out she had them on all day while was at the office, every day

NAD worth some research, remote ? https://houston.craigslist.org/ele/d/houston-nad-t770-receiver-51-or-channel/7256753288.html Very interesting, I would go for it if it checks out. Original owner, new remote, books, box? https://houston.craigslist.org/ele/d/houston-denon-avr-3300-receiver/7235198339.html

DSP A-1000 52Lbs Class AB Beast http://www.audiocostruzioni.com/r_s/ampli/ampli-audio-video/yamaha-dsp1/yamaha-dsp1.htm

I don't know all of the Mfgs High end designations but Pre HDMI connectors sell cheap read the reviews on Audio Review CNET will come up with the Model and Specs HiFi Engine also has lots of good info. If you see one you really want, you may want to suck it up and pay $100-200 instead of waiting months while they keep listing it. At this price make sure they give you the remote or no deal. Be sure to ask for the manuals and box if they have it. Bring your own small throw away speakers 8 Ohm with short cables and a source with cable and cheap headphones to jack in If it doesn't come out of DC protect walk away and wait for one that works When you get it home, take the lid off, blow it out with compressed air outside, inspect capacitors for bulges and leaks, board for hot brown spots, DC offset on the pre-amp outs and amp outs against Service manual specs from hifi engine. Then run it for a few weeks with some disposable speakers before connecting to your good speakers. SONY ES Pioneer Elite (pre elite surrounds are excellent early 2000s) Yamaha pre Class D amps A1 A1000 etc 50lbs, Marantz Others If I see one of these I won't hesitate to buy it Yamaha DSP A-1 1998-99 https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/yamaha/dsp-a1.shtml Yamaha DSP A- A-2 etc https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/yamaha.shtml?category=av-amplifier I wouldn't buy a 100VAC Japanese model, but a good review site https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/yamaha-a-1-vintage-amplifier-review.9576/ I picked one of these up for $14 Pioneer VSX4900S (4950) Specifications Tuning range: FM, MW Power output: 100 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo) Surround output: 100W (front), 20W (center), 18W (rear) Frequency response: 5Hz to 70kHz Total harmonic distortion: 0.05% Input sensitivity: 2.5mV (MM), 150mV (line) Signal to noise ratio: 75dB (MM), 97dB (line) Output: 150mV (line) Video Connections: composite Dimensions: 420 x 125 x 334mm Weight: 9kg Accessories: remote control Year: 1991 I paid $50 for one of these, world class stereo amp Definitely worth paying $300 to recap, clean and adjust to spec, world class Phono section, world class headphone output Yamaha A-1000 (1020) Specifications Class A or AB Power output: 120 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo) Frequency response: 20Hz to 20kHz Total harmonic distortion: 0.005% Damping factor: 90 Input sensitivity: 0.16mV (MC), 2.5mV (MM), 150mV (line) Signal to noise ratio: 80dB (MC), 94dB (MM), 106dB (line) Channel separation: 70dB (MM), 65dB (line) Output: 150mV (line) Dimensions: 435 x 146 x 424.5mm Weight: 13kg Year: 1983 https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/yamaha/a-1000.shtml

I was happy with 16GA Lamp cord for 35 years Then I discovered O free 12 GA speaker cables and have to had some, pricey the one that I purchased. Then for everything else, and there is a lot of other gear I use my lamp cords, which still sound fine to me For in wall or out of wall the Belden in wall twisted pair is probably superior, but not sexy laying all over the floor. I understand Coax, and can understand the advantages I have run lots of RG6 for my FM Radio project I wonder if they have banana plug terminators for RG6 ? I am also happy with the old style wire clamp connectors that were standard on all the high end gear in the 70s and 80s How often do you unplug the speakers from the wires ?

Like the golden Capacitor, the Golden Speaker Cable Searched Speed of Light vs Speed of Electricity in Copper Cables These are Coax discussions, but you can extrapolate to speaker wire Q If I arranged an experiment where light raced electricity what would be the results? Let's say a red laser is fired at the same time a switch is closed that applies 110 volts to a 12 gauge loop of copper wire with a meter at a distance of ten meters. Also, does the speed of the electricity depend on the voltage applied or the resistance of the conductor? For this test let's say the distance is ten meters through air. I'm not looking for an exact answer. An approximation is fine. electricity speed-of-light electric-current speed conductors A1 A standard demonstration is sending an electrical pulse into a cable a few hundred meters long. The incident and reflected pulses can be visualized on an oscilloscope, separated by about a microsecond, strongly dependent upon cable length, allowing one to determine the speed of signal propagation in the cable. – Smartybartfast A2 The speed of electricity is conceptually the speed of the electromagnetic signal in the wire, which is somewhat similar to the concept of the speed of light in a transparent medium. So it is normally lower, but not too much lower than the speed of light in the vacuum. The speed also depends on the cable construction. The cable geometry and the insulation both reduce the speed. Good cables achieve 80% of the speed of light; excellent cables achieve 90%. The speed does not directly depend on the voltage or resistance. However, different frequencies have different attenuation. In your example, the very moment of switching on represents a high frequency front that will be attenuated. While at the input the voltage would increase very fast, at the output it would increase gradually, as if with a delay. It is not really a delay per se, because the initial low level signal would get there almost with the speed of light, but its amplitude would only gradually increase and reach the full voltage with a substantial delay that would depend on the cable and circuit impedance (mostly on the cable inductance). If you use a high speed coaxial cable (like a 3GHz satellite TV cable) instead of a wire, the delay would be much shorter (80-90% of the speed of light to the full voltage). Hope this helps. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/358894/speed-of-light-vs-speed-of-electricity https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0986/4308/files/Cable-Delay-FAQ.pdf What Is The Speed Of Electron In A Current Carrying Conductor? The electron cannot win the race in vacuum, let alone inside a conductor. The electron cannot travel at the same speed as light for the simple reason that it has mass. Light is the fastest thing in the Universe because it’s massless; it carries with it no baggage and exhibits absolutely no inertia that hinders its motion. https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/what-is-the-speed-of-electricity.html