Hello Lloyd, I am a little late with my reply because I was on a skiing holiday with my son last week. But as regards your question: you know that for me in the end ultimate purity, liquidity, density and serinity - or to put all this in one word: ‘unmechanicalness’ - is more important than ultimate power. And so far I have never experienced a big/massive solid state amplifier that can match my Kondo’s in unmechanicalness. Therefore I have never been tempted to listen to large solid state amps at home with my LA’s, also because due to (i) all my grounding efforts with various state of the art Tripoint Audio components and cables, (ii) all my mechanical isolation efforts by employing 40 pure and untreated copper slabs as platforms for all my audio components as well as for mass loading these units (iii) all my power related efforts and (iv) the - relative - high sensitivity of my Tidal La Assoluta loudspeakers (around 93-94 db with no drops below 4 ohm if you look at it in say a ‘realistic way’; around 96 db if you look at it from the ‘inflated sensitivity numbers perspective’ many loudspeaker manufacturers are providing to their customers) I have assembled an audio system which sounds to my ears very dynamic/explosive and is - depending on the recordings of course - capable of creating a wide and deep soundstage.
That all said I visited the Tidal factory years back and listened to the LA’s in their former dedicated listening room (Tidal Audio has since moved to another place). This listening room was larger - in particular wider - than my listening room while the really huge and impressive Tidal La Assoluta monoblocs were used to power the system. And yes, with such massive solid state amplifiers you have more control/command, in particular with regard to the four bass drivers per LA loudspeaker, and the dynamic swings witch these behemoths are more impressive than I am able to achieve with my - relative low wattage - Kondo power amplifiers. The combination of the Tidal La Assoluta monoblocs and the Tidal La Assoluta loudspeakers really impressed me.
So I am sure that with two - let alone: with four - massive solid state amplifiers like the LA or Vitus monoblocs I would be able to create a sound that is more impressive in certain departments. But in my - in comparison to the Tidal listening room - somewhat smaller listening room I am quite satisfied with the dynamics, command and low end of the Tidal LA/Kondo amps combination while their unmechanicalness is imho absolutely stunning.
And lastly: please keep in mind that my LA system has greatly benefitted from adding the Wadax reference dac, the Wadax reference server, the Wadax dedicated reference PSU (for the reference server) and four Wadax Akasa cables (three of them are dc cables while the fourth is an ic cable between the Wadax reference dac and reference server). Inter alia the dynamics and low end of this Wadax digital trio are in my view world class.
I hope this answers your question.
That all said I visited the Tidal factory years back and listened to the LA’s in their former dedicated listening room (Tidal Audio has since moved to another place). This listening room was larger - in particular wider - than my listening room while the really huge and impressive Tidal La Assoluta monoblocs were used to power the system. And yes, with such massive solid state amplifiers you have more control/command, in particular with regard to the four bass drivers per LA loudspeaker, and the dynamic swings witch these behemoths are more impressive than I am able to achieve with my - relative low wattage - Kondo power amplifiers. The combination of the Tidal La Assoluta monoblocs and the Tidal La Assoluta loudspeakers really impressed me.
So I am sure that with two - let alone: with four - massive solid state amplifiers like the LA or Vitus monoblocs I would be able to create a sound that is more impressive in certain departments. But in my - in comparison to the Tidal listening room - somewhat smaller listening room I am quite satisfied with the dynamics, command and low end of the Tidal LA/Kondo amps combination while their unmechanicalness is imho absolutely stunning.
And lastly: please keep in mind that my LA system has greatly benefitted from adding the Wadax reference dac, the Wadax reference server, the Wadax dedicated reference PSU (for the reference server) and four Wadax Akasa cables (three of them are dc cables while the fourth is an ic cable between the Wadax reference dac and reference server). Inter alia the dynamics and low end of this Wadax digital trio are in my view world class.
I hope this answers your question.
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