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dturco · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:34 pm Post subject:

I'll admit freely that I am biased when it comes to Bryston. I have had a Rotel,3 channel amp, back in the days when S-VHS was the premier format. It fried under my use .

I had an Adcom 555. It failed under my use . Ok it was just blowing fuses, but I did not know how to repair it at the time so 3 trips to the shop. A fail safe so not that bad still good.

I bought 2 Bryston 2b Lp's Which overheated in my rack shut down, but once reset and cooled they worked fine. So no real down time to me, so I stuck with Bryston when I went to separates from a Denon 3300 AVR in the Media rooms of past homes.

The Denon also failed 2 times under warranty it was fixed both times after waiting 2-3 months for it to be returned.

Biased towards Bryston, you bet.

Unfairly, probably, because once I went to the 4B SST 6B SST I had solved the problem I was always creating , excessive heat because of lack of TRUE power.

500 watts compared to the previous equipments 125 watts and 225 watts. It was the lack of power that was the issue and my over-driving the units that was the real issue, but Bryston work for my extreme use so...

Label me Biased Mr. Green

Edit: Oh yeah, it sounds really good too Embarassed

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject:

I agree Dragan, but I'd still need to hear the difference myself.

I guess I'm really jaded and cynical, from being involved in the commercial sound industry for years now, and having too many customers come to be and brag about sound system quality that they have, only to see a crap install, ditto for home systems. IN a commercial system, sound quality is way down on the scale of importance, functionality and reliability and INTELLIGIBILITY are rated far higher.

It's been a Loooong time since I've heard a really good stereo audiophile system, I guess I should take some time to listen to good audio.

I'm still also really cynical as to how different amps sound, and yes, I guess I should have qualified my above post by saying that the amp class as well as power rating needed to be the same between the amps you are a/bing.

dturco · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject:

Dragan's a Bing?

WTF is a Bing? Laughing

That's how I sped read that

Funny.

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject:

Frankly, we loved customers liek dturco when I had the repair shop. Made lots of money repairing amps and blown speakers.

WE actually had a cut in half speaker showing customers 'why did I blow it up'. Usually that solved a lot of the blown speaker issues.

1) If it sound distorted, turn it down.
2) Don't turn the amp volume knob past the 11 oclock position. that's when most rotary knob amps hit max power.

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dturco · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject:

dturco · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:41 pm Post subject:

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

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**Curt Palme** · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:56 am Post subject:

Yep, I see that at CES all the time. I look into the high end rooms with the 50K speakers, and wonder why they bother.

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635