parlophone1 Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 A friend and me went to visit audio shop when he was in a quest for small ProAcs. At the time he was very much into small monitors. Tried several integrated amps in the price range 1000-2000. Amazingly every one of them had very different signature. One had a wide stage, other was more coherent in the mid-range ets etc. Easily heard the differences between them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve. Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Forte IV play nice with SS and Tubes. To me they definitely sound different with different electronics. I run mine mostly with my 300b but about two months ago I picked up the excellent sounding Cyrus i7-XR Integrated Amp for a second system. I didn't quite have everything needed for system 2 so I put the Cyrus in my main room to put it through it's paces. I ended up keeping it in there for three weeks it sounded so good. I was trying to trace a noise down and pulled my 300b out and set up my Quicksilver 40 watt monos. Again, different sound.... not bad but I really missed the tone and timbre of the 300b. Turned out the noise was cable related but it was good to leave the QS in for a little while. I agree with Parlophone, you should be able to hear the difference. I think the new Heritage are pretty revealing of what's upstream. If you swap out amps to no effect sometimes the preamp can be the limiting factor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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