Having owned the JJ 322 for the past few months, if there’s a better amp for my Quad 2905s, I haven’t heard it. And I’ve tried a lot of amplifiers over the years. Even my big ARC Ref 210s are sitting idly by glowering at me as I walk past them and turn on the JJ each evening. Power is not everything, not by a long shot. 20 watts is plenty, even with speakers rated at 86 dB. Theoretically, 10 watts into the Quads produces 96 dB at 1 meter. I never listen that loudly anyway. The big ARC has digital bar graph power meters. I’ve rarely seen them go above 10 watts, even when I play at what I consider loud volumes. But that’s me. I do not enjoy listening to music at rock concert volumes or discotheque 120 dB volumes. If you do that routinely, it doesn’t matter what equipment you own, your ears are toast. I have enjoyed listening to quality music for 30+ years, mostly because I’m careful with playback levels. As with everything in life, moderation is the key.
Fair enough and point taken. My personal experiences with different Tripoint ‘ground boxes’ and several Tripoint grounding cables in my (quite different sounding) Genesis 1.1 and Tidal La Assoluta set up’s are very clear and conclusive though: using them resulted always in a significant lower noise floor and one of the (main) benefits (but far from the only benefit!) was always greater (perceived) dynamics! For me that is a very important benefit because all audio systems fall imho (very) short - in comparison to (unamplified) live music - in that regard cq department. And as mentioned before, in several reviews of other ‘grounding devices’ the same experience as regards greater (perceived) dynamics were described.
Or think they like it because of false reports and other mistakes in their setups! In every instance when I cleaned up a setup enough to allow the owner to hear what these boxes were doing they ended removing them.
I disagree on this Francisco I hear the exact same effect across the board from these boxes in every system I’ve heard in; with no exceptions and it’s always negative. In fact run a wire from the gear to a metal radiator and you’ll have the same effect for free
!I do not know of course to which ‘grounding devices’ you listened to but someone must be stone deaf not to hear the benefits good ‘grounding’ boxes like Tripoint are bringing to the table.Or think they like it because of false reports and other mistakes in their setups! In every instance when I cleaned up a setup enough to allow the owner to hear what these boxes were doing they ended removing them.
I disagree on this Francisco I hear the exact same effect across the board from these boxes in every system I’ve heard in; with no exceptions and it’s always negative. In fact run a wire from the gear to a metal radiator and you’ll have the same effect for free
david
Your Tripoint was often among them and my thoughts were similar to yours, how deaf one has to be not to hear how destructive they are. Not to mention the ignorance to spend that kind of money in a literal litter box and continue to believe in it!
What a reassurance to read that there is one clever person active on WBF with such golden (or is it twisted?) ears that he can make such final/absolute judgments regarding a certain piece of audio equipment that is part of a whole audio system belonging to other people. Man, you are really ‘good’ and must be so proud of yourself.Your Tripoint was often among them and my thoughts were similar to yours, how deaf one has to be not to hear how destructive they are. Not to mention the ignorance to spend that kind of money in a literal litter box and continue to believe in it!
david
Every time we connect a piece of gear to a system you are adding a "tuned antenna" ...
Different grounding schemes react differently to noise. And the "grounding devices" are very diverse - some include noise generators.
The real question is that we can't predict how RF noise affects the sound quality of our systems. Too many variables to watch and control.
That is what I found out from using 20 Watts Cayin 300b pp amp.
