Amplifiers for my Sound Lab M745s

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    • August 15, 2025 at 5:34 am #2304
      Massimo Stefanizzi
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        @ Bigtwin:

        +1👍🎶
        Most valve amplifiers and solid-state designs, including the best, are now obsolete. Audiophiles tend to be conservative people and choose with their eyes and their gut, rather than with their brain and ears. They like the visual impact, but it’s just a matter of synesthesia. I don’t know Hegel but I am not surprised that it can be competitive and even better than the most famous class A or AB amplifiers, whether valve or solid state.

      • August 14, 2025 at 5:52 pm #2301
        Bigtwin
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          I’m running the 745s with a pair of Hegel H30 mono blocks. The H30s have beat out three tube amps I’ve put them up against. They are keepers.

        • March 12, 2025 at 6:13 pm #2249
          Dizzie
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            Anybody use Spectral amps with Sound Labs?

          • July 11, 2024 at 1:57 pm #2136
            jeffreybehr
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              The improved MA-1s lost to the ‘260s, but just yesterday I received and got running a pair of 200-Watts-into-8 Berning Quadrature Zs.. They sound VERY nice, but only extended listening will tell.

              More later.

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            • July 2, 2024 at 4:12 pm #2104
              jeffreybehr
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                Since receiving the Pass X260.8s weeks ago, the SLs and ‘260s are well broken in.. The system sounded excellent to me, but I have a couple-other amps–PS Audio’s hybrid M1200s and Atma-Sphere MA-1/3.1-Improveds*.. I’ve had the ‘1200s in the system for a week, and last nite a golden-eared friend and I listened to them with some of his favorite music.. We were rather pleased with the sounds, especially after reconnecting the ‘260s, which were simply more resolving and musically pleasing.

                Will be reconnecting the Atma-Spheres this aft to see how they sound.

                FWIW, I have for sale…
                https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650118459-ayre-acoustics-vx-r-mono-power-amp-pair/
                …a pair of Ayre MR-X monoamps that sounded mighty good with the SLs.. Only $6K, too. 😀

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                * I’ve improved these with newer, higher-quality main (output-stage) powersupply caps with 2uFs each of Teflon-film bypass caps, PS-bypass caps on the frontend (gain) tubes, and MIFLEX copperfoil/paper/oil coupling caps, and CARDAS rhodium bindingposts.

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