Dacapalooza
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Oooh! I want the amps in the 5%. What amps fall into the 5% better than the ahb2? I can still cancel my order I thinkThe AHB2 is better than probably 95% of amps.
Oooh! I want the amps in the 5%. What amps fall into the 5% better than the ahb2? I can still cancel my order I thinkThe AHB2 is better than probably 95% of amps.
What song should I play first? What song did you play first? This will be the biggest advancement I will probably ever hear in my lifetime.
My system wide SINBAD limitation is 70-75dB if I were to guess. My current amp. My DAC is 118. So once I get the amp I'll have a system wide limitation of 113 of the amp/ahb2. I'm glad I got the DAC first in preparation.
I bought a few DVD-Audio's & Pure Audio BD's.
Will Smith, in I Am Legend boasted that Bob Marley is the greatest album ever made. I never heard Hollywood endorse an album before?
So I am thinking of the Legend Pure Audio BD with the 96khz PCM tracks.
I also found quite a few 48/24 DVD with music videos. Mostly 80's. So those will probably go second.
What movie should I play first? Not a lot of uncompressed 48/24 BD's. Most uncompressed are 48/16. Box office wise the top ones are:
Pirates Of The Caribbean & Pearl Harbor.
Although with DD/DTS lossless compression it should not make a difference. So maybe this is wrong way to choose. I started comparing dynamic range of lossless/LPCM vs DD/DTS using the TC electronics' DR meter hardware. Sometimes LPCM is better sometimes it is same.
There are very few 96khz BD's. Asia has these 96khz upsampling BD's. So I bought 96khz upsampled Honest Thief. Native 96khz nothing great. I bought them, but only because it is 96khz.
I have SVS Ultra 16. 5K Watts & 16". Sounds wonderful. For movies anyway. Did not compare for music. I actually compared subs at my dealer. It blew everything else he had away.Play Ratatouille but you'll need a good subwoofer
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- Rich
You are implying I should look for loud movies. Loud usually means Dynamic Range suffers. My understanding is better the DR, better the sound.
I could run Ratatouille in my DR meter to verify. But anyway it is cartoon.
Also the sub has it's own amp. So it will not benefit from the AHB2. So increase of sub usage does not take advantage of the AHB2 in anyway.
Speaking of which, I am thinking of getting a Bag End sub with a bridged AHB2. But a better speaker with a bad amp will sound better than a bad speaker with good amp. So we need measurements. I am thinking of buying/sending the host a Bag End sub with a bridged AHB2 to measure.
I betchya a 400 watt sub is fine for my small room
Will this amplifier be able to drive B&W 800Diamond?
. My estimate of the B&W's sensitivity was 90.2dB(B)/2.83V/m, which is within experimental error of the specified 90dB. This is higher than average, but is offset by the fact that the speaker's impedance drops below 4 ohms for most of the midrange and some of the bass (fig.1). There are minima of 3.15 ohms at 91Hz, 3.1 ohms at 620Hz, and 3.67 ohms at 21kHz. Given that there are current-hungry combinations of 4 ohms and –52° electrical phase angle at 62Hz and 5.3 ohms and –39° phase angle at 8.6kHz, I believe this speaker should be rated as a 4 ohm load rather than the specified 8 ohms.
Will this amplifier be able to drive B&W 800Diamond?
pogo is not asking if we should be concerned about heat, rather how do the measurements suffer. To back pogo up, he has good reason to ask.
That' correct.
With such objective data, you can better understand the behavior of the AHB2 in the real world. So far I have still not received an answer to my questions via email to the manufacturer
Hello all, I am new to the forum and a newbie/wanna be audiophile. I would very much like to be in the camp that measurements matter most and that anything that measures well will sound great. However, I don’t know what I don’t know. Do I just buy a Benchmark amp and call it a day or is there something else that would sound better to my ears. I see people selling used benchmarks occasionally and that makes me wonder why? Are they the type of people that are never satisfied or did they find something better. If so, what is it and what makes it better? Any thoughts are appreciated.
Hello all, I am new to the forum and a newbie/wanna be audiophile. I would very much like to be in the camp that measurements matter most and that anything that measures well will sound great. However, I don’t know what I don’t know. Do I just buy a Benchmark amp and call it a day or is there something else that would sound better to my ears. I see people selling used benchmarks occasionally and that makes me wonder why? Are they the type of people that are never satisfied or did they find something better. If so, what is it and what makes it better? Any thoughts are appreciated.
Why do people sell? Maybe they want to add more pleasing distortion or warmth to their music. Or boredom.
I don't know why folks sell AHB2s ...
Bruh... silver > black.I bought the silver AHB2, but now I want the black
You could send it to Benchmark to get it blackenedI bought the silver AHB2, but now I want the black
I was quoted $300+ for the swap, so not really worth it for me. I'll just have to deal with the bright/harsh sound of the silver AHB2 over the dark/warm sound and black background of the black AHB2. /sYou could send it to Benchmark to get it blackened
They wont let you do it at home.
- Rich
That's pretty high, I would contact them again and see if they will let you replace the faceplate.I was quoted $300+ for the swap, so not really worth it for me. I'll just have to deal with the bright/harsh sound of the silver AHB2 over the dark/warm sound and black background of the black AHB2. /s