Deang Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 About a month ago I posted that I was buying an Anthem AMP1 45 watt tube to mate with my RC7's. I had commented that if I didn't like the bass I would take advantage of the RC7's biwirable crossover and just biamp instead - putting the AMP1 on the horns and my Luxman 200 wpc SS amp on the woofers. The experiment failed miserably. In fact - it sounded pretty bad. I'm not even going to waste keystrokes trying to describe the sound - but trust me - it don't work. So - I just put the Anthem 'tubey' with the RC7's and left it that way - giving my ears a chance to get used to it. I tried running it with my Boston PV1000 sub and ended up liking the sound better without it. This kind of surprised me. Well, Now I had this extra amp I wasn't using, and a sub that was just sitting there. I had recently upgraded my DVD player to a Marantz DV7010 and got thinking that I was really only a preamp and speakers away from another decent system. While I was shopping for a preamp on AudioGon. Earle Decker decided to sell his B&K 4420 - and always wanting a good MOSFET amp - I gobbled it up. I got lucky and found another Anthem Pre1L and scooped it up. That left getting the speakers and I was just about out of money. What to buy? I decided on a set of SB2's to mate with the PV1000 and B&K. After trying every different combination possible I ended up doing the following: We live in a Cape Cod and so the whole upstairs serves as our bedroom - below is the system I built upstairs: Klipsch RC7's Anthem AMP1 Anthem Pre1L Anthem CD1 Toshiba DVD Player 27" Mitsubishi Downstairs system: Klipsch SB2's PV1000 Subwoofer B&K 4420 Anthem Pre1L Marantz DV7010 32" Toshiba I will probably upgrade those SB2's to a set of RB5's before January. What I think is that tubes sound magical. I don't have the lower end control that the B&K or even my Luxman gave me - but I don't care. The lows are good enough and the mids and sparkling highs make up for it in spades. I have no idea what people are talking about when they talk about the 'rolled off highs of tube amps'. The downstairs system is primarily for HT now - though the SB2's sound surprisingly good hooked up to that B&K 4420. It's a nice dark, rich sound. ------------------ deanG This message has been edited by deang on 11-12-2001 at 12:07 AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEAR Posted November 12, 2001 Share Posted November 12, 2001 LOL Sounded good on paper!Well at least you have good sound now.I tried to use tubes for upper range and SS for the woofers,I too failed.The sounds was not a donkey nor a monkey. Simple is often the best TheEAR(s) Now theears Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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