AMPs / Monoblocks for Canton Refference 5

[Roland68]

But, is it worth to replace D6S+L70 for D200?

Absolutely not.

That would only make sense if you wanted to use the L70 as a headphone amplifier elsewhere.

 

[oneanother]

What can I expect, when I will compare combo D6S+L70 with Cambridge CXN? Which one would any of you choose?

 

[oneanother]

So after a couple of days I can say, the Cambridge Edge W is powerhouse. It control the Reference 5 with authority. There is no sign of underpowering. The depth, the stage, the detail, all of these get a huge improvement. Now I am searching the better preamp.

 

[dogmamann]

I once heard a trick that you can remove this strange DC circuit in Canton speakers, which significantly improves low-frequency control for the amplifier.

If anything it will only make it worse. The DC circuit removes the lowest bass which is not audible from the signal to the drivers which reduces the reverse EMF, thereby allowing amp to damp the woofer more.

 

[dogmamann]

I had a Denon PMA-1500R amplifier a few years ago. I regret selling it because I thought it was good and stylish. I was offered a good price though.

It would have been really interesting to see how it handled a pair of Canton Reference 5.

Denon PMA-1500R is not a monster power amplifier (70 watts into 8 Ohm, 140 watts into 4 Ohm) but since current was brought up in the thread:

In order to solve the conflicting problems of delicate expressive power and speaker drive, we have adopted a high-current amplifier UHC-MOS with a peak current of 120A at the output stage....

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But maybe that's not enough?

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Denon works well with Canton. I dont know the technicalities, but every time I demoed them together, they sounded good. Even better pairing to my ears is from AVM and T+A with Cantons.

 

[Ropeburn]

If anything it will only make it worse. The DC circuit removes the lowest bass which is not audible from the signal to the drivers which reduces the reverse EMF, thereby allowing amp to damp the woofer more.

Yes indeed. This is the impedance of a speaker with (solid) and without (dotted) DC circuit (source Canton):

As we can see it reduces impedance in the useful bass range, meaning it draws more power there. Simply use a beefy enough amp and that's it, nothing special needed. At the same time, it protects both speaker and amp from useless infrasonics, reducing both power draw and distortion in that region. Arguably you don't even need a rumble filter in your phono preamp for example, the speaker already got one. The amp will still deliver the infra signal, but meet high resistance and thus doesn't have to deliver high current.