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Originally Posted by Ztrope
Try the XVX with DarTZeel’s pre and power amps and prepared to be blown away. McIntosh is great, don’t get me wrong; but not in the level of ‘Zeel. And your XVX should get the best amplification possible.
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I believe these are the amps that Jacob Heilbrunn uses with his WAMM's; also Mike Fremmer with his XVX. NHB-468 mono amps and produce roughly 500 watts or about the same in power as the 3500 at least according to published specs. However when measured:
"With that caution in mind and with "clipping" defined as when the THD+noise reaches 1%, I found that the NHB-468 clipped at 216W into 16 ohms (26.2dBW, fig.4), 398W into 8 ohms (26.0dBW, fig.5), 205W into 4 ohms (201.1dBW, fig.6), and 101W into 2 ohms (140dBW, fig.7)." See Stereophile Dartzeel 468 review. Them's are some pretty expensive watts.
This would not be my amp of choice if I were going to buy an amp. A 230K/pair amp that will clip at 101 watts into 2-ohms isn't for me. My choice for my XVX other than a 3500 would be the new Relentless Epic. However, I'll stick with my MC3500 which will do about 700 beautiful tube dynamic watts into 2, 4, or 8 ohms.
Best
Charles