Hello everyone,
I haven't talked about my amp on this forum much.
First I want to lay down the intention with the unit. I've got numerous things in development. But something I mean to accomplish throughout my eventual releases of consumer products is that I plan to offer some DIY solutions. I highly respect the DIY crowd for diving in and creating their own equipment. But my DIY projects may not resemble other projects because they are not existing to just be there, or fit a budget. For all intensive purposes they are and will be truly high end. The DIY projects will typically not be mutually available as commercial products; but is in this scenario.
I'd like to find another place to send it. But it's not first come first serve. The amp is only 15w, so speakers that will mate with it are needed (91db+).
I think anyone with fairly efficient speakers will appreciate the amplifier particularly for the fact that it isn't a big heat generator. In fact it puts off almost nothing. It makes a wonderful summer amplifier if heat keeps driving you out of your listening room.
How does it sound? Well it's had a fair bit of good feedback. Comparatively it made a Bryston 3BSST2, and a McIntosh MC302 sound like uncultured oafs. A unit was made to replace the Bryston. The owner believes the Consort sounds as if it has more power at any regular listening levels. It's the easiest listening he's ever had. I believe that's because the sound comes to you and you don't have to work for it because it's so clear. In fact it's somewhat freakishly linear. By that I mean on a stereo with an active source (buffered, preamp or DAC) when you turn the volume up or down it sounds the same. It's not until you push it beyond it's means that you can hear the compression set in, that it changes the sound. The result has been quiet listening levels that deliver what you previously had to turn the volume up to get. However it makes you face the reality of the volume you're playing. If you have it loud and some trumpets blare real hard you might want to turn it down or get away from them just like standing next to a trumpet would do in real life. I'll post more following this entry.
The amp drives 4ohm and 8ohm speakers just fine. The input impedance is approximately 27k. The gain is 32db so it does not match best with preamps that add gain.
Here's some fun pictures;
I haven't talked about my amp on this forum much.
First I want to lay down the intention with the unit. I've got numerous things in development. But something I mean to accomplish throughout my eventual releases of consumer products is that I plan to offer some DIY solutions. I highly respect the DIY crowd for diving in and creating their own equipment. But my DIY projects may not resemble other projects because they are not existing to just be there, or fit a budget. For all intensive purposes they are and will be truly high end. The DIY projects will typically not be mutually available as commercial products; but is in this scenario.
I'd like to find another place to send it. But it's not first come first serve. The amp is only 15w, so speakers that will mate with it are needed (91db+).
I think anyone with fairly efficient speakers will appreciate the amplifier particularly for the fact that it isn't a big heat generator. In fact it puts off almost nothing. It makes a wonderful summer amplifier if heat keeps driving you out of your listening room.
How does it sound? Well it's had a fair bit of good feedback. Comparatively it made a Bryston 3BSST2, and a McIntosh MC302 sound like uncultured oafs. A unit was made to replace the Bryston. The owner believes the Consort sounds as if it has more power at any regular listening levels. It's the easiest listening he's ever had. I believe that's because the sound comes to you and you don't have to work for it because it's so clear. In fact it's somewhat freakishly linear. By that I mean on a stereo with an active source (buffered, preamp or DAC) when you turn the volume up or down it sounds the same. It's not until you push it beyond it's means that you can hear the compression set in, that it changes the sound. The result has been quiet listening levels that deliver what you previously had to turn the volume up to get. However it makes you face the reality of the volume you're playing. If you have it loud and some trumpets blare real hard you might want to turn it down or get away from them just like standing next to a trumpet would do in real life. I'll post more following this entry.
The amp drives 4ohm and 8ohm speakers just fine. The input impedance is approximately 27k. The gain is 32db so it does not match best with preamps that add gain.
Here's some fun pictures;
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I think your stereo is an appropriate one for such an amplifier. Sometime in the future I'd love to get it onto some Alexandria's or such to know its true limits.
