jamsquirrel

Recent experience with SS amps running RP6000f. Note. Generally speaking I run music out from a Tidal account. I tried the following amps and dacs in various combos ...Rotel RA 1210/Cambridge Azur 540/Cambridge A1/Pioneer 401. Topping and dragonfly dacs. The Topping DAC with the Cambridge 504 as a pre-amp running the Rotel 1210 was good. Rotel on its own was too sharp. Pioneer was too sharp. Cambridge A1 lacked power and the Cambridge Azur tipped up the bass too much. I finally punted on a Powergate and discovered it sounded best with its internal (and apparently 'noisy') DAC as opposed to being hooked up to either the Dragonfly or Topping. Set up on WIndows 10 was a 'no go' as far as the drivers were concerned, so dug out an old Windows 7 computer and 'Boom!' - silky highs and punchy tight bass. When I sat back and thought about it, I got to reckoning that a speaker manufacturer can easily enough build an amp to suit their kit, whereas the same can't be said coming at it from the opposite direction (eg - Cambridge making speakers for their amps)...maybe because there's more 'art' involved in speaker manufacture. Anyway. I'm thinking I could probably have spent 'forever' buying and selling various older SS amps and swapping them in and out with one another to get where I've finally landed up. And for under US$200. The only step I'm thinking to make is to get me a Klipsch KDA 500 DSP. I reckon that'll be the train pulling into the station at that point. Thoughts?