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Post by livlifdc on Aug 29, 2018 10:31:16 GMT -5
Hey! Im currently using a PT-100 with an A-150. Music is from tidal via USB on MacBook Pro. It's all driving a pair of KEF R300s. I am wondering if upgrading to the A-300 will benefit me. Will having extra power give me better sound at both low and high volumes? Thoughts?
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Post by lotaz on Sept 3, 2018 9:00:10 GMT -5
I just bought an A-300 as i had been running a TA-100. It was a definite improvement. I noticed very quickly I was turning down the bass and treble on lower volumes. So i can say more power helps but I am not sure how much it will in your case. With my set up it was 3 times the power. Oh and I should state no one in my family noticed the difference but I knew that would be the case before I bought it.
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Post by Cogito on Sept 3, 2018 10:34:46 GMT -5
I just bought an A-300 as i had been running a TA-100. It was a definite improvement. I noticed very quickly I was turning down the bass and treble on lower volumes. So i can say more power helps but I am not sure how much it will in your case. With my set up it was 3 times the power. Oh and I should state no one in my family noticed the difference but I knew that would be the case before I bought it. Tone controls? How quaint...
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Post by leonski on Sept 3, 2018 13:03:22 GMT -5
Tone controls are staging a 'minor' comeback. I use mine LATE and turn up bass and treble a little. Just like an old-school 'loudness contour'. Now thats another control mostly gone away. The reason? Ear is much less sensitvie to LF and HF as level drops. So, to make it sound 'natural', you turn up those parts of the spectrum.
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Post by garbulky on Sept 3, 2018 14:04:41 GMT -5
Hey! Im currently using a PT-100 with an A-150. Music is from tidal via USB on MacBook Pro. It's all driving a pair of KEF R300s. I am wondering if upgrading to the A-300 will benefit me. Will having extra power give me better sound at both low and high volumes? Thoughts? I wouldn't bother. For the money you are spending the difference between the two isn't worth it imo. A real upgrade would be an xpa-2 GEN 1 or gen 2. But I'm not sure if you'll hear a difference with your Bookshelf speakers so I can't reccomend it. I did with my tower speakers
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Post by Cogito on Sept 3, 2018 18:47:52 GMT -5
Tone controls are staging a 'minor' comeback. I use mine LATE and turn up bass and treble a little. Just like an old-school 'loudness contour'. Now thats another control mostly gone away. The reason? Ear is much less sensitvie to LF and HF as level drops. So, to make it sound 'natural', you turn up those parts of the spectrum. The problem is that they are typically centered where they add nothing but boom and sizzle.
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Post by leonski on Sept 3, 2018 21:19:51 GMT -5
The tone controls of my Parasound 'do what they are supposed to do'. Nothing rash. And fine for the use I put them to.
More flexible were the tone tone controls of my now long-gone NAD1700 tuner / preamp. They were 'semi parametric' according to the advert. Switchable centers for bass @60, 125, 250 and at 3k, 6k, 12k for treble. They were useful for a number of 'corrections'. And narrower in effect.
The NAD also had a VERY useful Rumble Filter at a low 20hz. For you TT lovers.
Just keep in mind the use I put my current tone controls to, ONLY at low levels (don't wake anyone up!) and than fairly late at night for TV watching. I get the boom/sizzle observation, but that doesn't apply under the conditions I use them.
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Post by lotaz on Sept 12, 2018 16:22:30 GMT -5
I just bought an A-300 as i had been running a TA-100. It was a definite improvement. I noticed very quickly I was turning down the bass and treble on lower volumes. So i can say more power helps but I am not sure how much it will in your case. With my set up it was 3 times the power. Oh and I should state no one in my family noticed the difference but I knew that would be the case before I bought it. Tone controls? How quaint... Ha ha
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