Do they even make good amps anymore?

[n2audio 5,000+ posts]

A bandpass box is limiting low and high frequencies, depending on where it's tuned.A bandpass crossover is using a HPF and a LPF, limiting a central portion of frequencies. A SSF is nothing more than a HPF in different terms. Anyone that's using a SSF and a LPF on a sub, or any HPF and LPF on mids is using bandpass crossovers.

I wasn't confused about the meaning of BP.

I don't understand why NL4U brought it up as some sort of deal breaker in using a 2 ch amp to run subs.

 

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

I wasn't confused about the meaning of BP.I don't understand why NL4U brought it up as some sort of deal breaker in using a 2 ch amp to run subs.

There wasn't much 20hz music in the days 2 channel amps where bridged. Also most ran sealed boxes.

 

[keep_hope_alive Premium Member]

cliffs?

 

[MilbertCom]

We currently offer two models of mobile tube amp -- the more expensive BaM235, and the less expensive Liquid. Both are class A input and driver stages, with push-pull, class AB1 output stage. -- Milbert, the Most Musical Amplifiers

"Continuing engineering" generally seems to try to get more (or at least the same) for less, and that often results in general, broad cheapening, homogenization. This could mean 'more power for less dollars', 'more heat dissipation for less heat sink', 'more songs for less encumbrance', or something else; however, more sound quality for less hasn't seemed to have have been a common consideration...maybe because sound quality has mainstreamed. How many persons presently buying car audio for sport or hobby have heard first-hand a vinyl album or cassette tape? When you've got Sting and a thousand others of the world's best singers in your shirt pocket, what impetus is left to sing, or to otherwise forego convenience and quantity, no matter how awful the MP3 or other compression makes the sound quality? Someone called the other day asking about an old Nak TD700 head. I'm wondering how much the ever-increasing convenience, and ever-hurrying freneticism, that drives that ever-lessening sources is to blame for the dismal state. Someone I know just a got super-duper new car with everything, including ten-speaker sound system. I'm sure it's absolutely perfect -- I heard it make sound, yes; be musical, not really; emotionally engage, LOL. It's like listening to a MIDI drum machine - you can't stand it after a very short while.

 

[adulbrich 5,000+ posts]

We currently offer two models of mobile tube amp -- the more expensive BaM235, and the less expensive Liquid. Both are class A input and driver stages, with push-pull, class AB1 output stage. -- Milbert, the Most Musical Amplifiers
"Continuing engineering" generally seems to try to get more (or at least the same) for less, and that often results in general, broad cheapening, homogenization. This could mean 'more power for less dollars', 'more heat dissipation for less heat sink', 'more songs for less encumbrance', or something else; however, more sound quality for less hasn't seemed to have have been a common consideration...maybe because sound quality has mainstreamed. How many persons presently buying car audio for sport or hobby have heard first-hand a vinyl album or cassette tape? When you've got Sting and a thousand others of the world's best singers in your shirt pocket, what impetus is left to sing, or to otherwise forego convenience and quantity, no matter how awful the MP3 or other compression makes the sound quality? Someone called the other day asking about an old Nak TD700 head. I'm wondering how much the ever-increasing convenience, and ever-hurrying freneticism, that drives that ever-lessening sources is to blame for the dismal state. Someone I know just a got super-duper new car with everything, including ten-speaker sound system. I'm sure it's absolutely perfect -- I heard it make sound, yes; be musical, not really; emotionally engage, LOL. It's like listening to a MIDI drum machine - you can't stand it after a very short while.

Prices on these?