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Alesis Matica 900 power amp and temporarily driving a pair of NS10's with a consumer amp .......... [message #72185] Fri, 08 September 2006 21:22 Go to next message
Deej [1] is currently offline  Deej [1]   FRANCE
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I'm waiting on a power amp to show up form my NS10M's. I tried a number of
amps that I had access to in this area and the one I like best wasn't one of
the Yamaha amps. It was, surprisingly (I guess) an Alesis Matica
900......very open, clean and detailed sounding with 270WPC.......so anyway,
I found one and that's what's going to show up here next week to power these
things. Maybe I'll change my mind, but that one seemed the best sounding of
the bunch to my ears. In the meantime I want to use them so I hooked them up
to a consumer grade Sony amp that is very clean and rated 230W / impedance
use 6-16 ohms. That's pretty broad and the NS10M's are 8ohm IIRC, so I
oughta' be goo if I don't try to drive these puppies too
hard..........right?

Deej
Re: Alesis Matica 900 power amp and temporarily driving a pair of NS10's with a consumer amp ...... [message #72186 is a reply to message #72185] Fri, 08 September 2006 22:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
DC is currently offline  DC
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It will be fine.

BTW, if you want an Adcom (they're very nice) let me know.

We're dealers.

DC


"DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
>I'm waiting on a power amp to show up form my NS10M's. I tried a number
of
>amps that I had access to in this area and the one I like best wasn't one
of
>the Yamaha amps. It was, surprisingly (I guess) an Alesis Matica
>900......very open, clean and detailed sounding with 270WPC.......so anyway,
>I found one and that's what's going to show up here next week to power these
>things. Maybe I'll change my mind, but that one seemed the best sounding
of
>the bunch to my ears. In the meantime I want to use them so I hooked them
up
>to a consumer grade Sony amp that is very clean and rated 230W / impedance
>use 6-16 ohms. That's pretty broad and the NS10M's are 8ohm IIRC, so I
>oughta' be goo if I don't try to drive these puppies too
>hard..........right?
>
>Deej
>
>
Re: Alesis Matica 900 power amp and temporarily driving a pair of NS10's with a consumer amp ...... [message #72188 is a reply to message #72186] Sat, 09 September 2006 05:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
John [1] is currently offline  John [1]
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Your consumer amp is fine. Feel free to crank it up hard and use your ears
to listen for distortion. If you hear it distort back off. Consumer amps
rock.

"DC" <dc@spammersinbrooklyn.com> wrote:
>
>It will be fine.
>
>BTW, if you want an Adcom (they're very nice) let me know.
>
>We're dealers.
>
>DC
>
>
>"DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
>>I'm waiting on a power amp to show up form my NS10M's. I tried a number
>of
>>amps that I had access to in this area and the one I like best wasn't one
>of
>>the Yamaha amps. It was, surprisingly (I guess) an Alesis Matica
>>900......very open, clean and detailed sounding with 270WPC.......so anyway,
>>I found one and that's what's going to show up here next week to power
these
>>things. Maybe I'll change my mind, but that one seemed the best sounding
>of
>>the bunch to my ears. In the meantime I want to use them so I hooked them
>up
>>to a consumer grade Sony amp that is very clean and rated 230W / impedance
>>use 6-16 ohms. That's pretty broad and the NS10M's are 8ohm IIRC, so I
>>oughta' be goo if I don't try to drive these puppies too
>>hard..........right?
>>
>>Deej
>>
>>
>
Re: Alesis Matica 900 power amp and temporarily driving a pair of NS10's with a consumer amp ...... [message #72190 is a reply to message #72186] Sat, 09 September 2006 10:51 Go to previous message
Deej [1] is currently offline  Deej [1]   FRANCE
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Don,

I have an ADCom GFA-1 here. It's olllllldddd and doesn't have nearly the
fidelity fo the Matica 900......but thaty's probably because it's
oooollllldddddd and the caps are likely dried out. It's going to be a
science project I think and once I get it right, I'll likely use it with a
crossover to biamp my ADS 1530's down in my listening room. If I start
getting unhappy with the Matica 900, I may consider another Adcom. I like
them too. I also liked the Yamaha P2210 (I think that's what it was......the
one that John Macy reccommended), but the one I had here wasn't quite as
much to my liking as the Matica 900. It could have been for a number of
reasons having to do with the age/integrity of either/both of the amps since
theses aren't exactly spring chickens. My resources here are pretty limited
as to what I have available to demo, but I'll keep moving down this path
until I'm satisfied with *something*. I've got a KRK RP 10S powered
subwoofer here that I'm integrating into the NS10M reference scenario. This,
along with my NHT A/20/B-20 reference system ought to give me a bit more
flexibility than I have now. The NS10M's definitely do make things easier to
translate a mix to a car stereo.
"DC" <dc@spammersinbrooklyn.com> wrote in message news:45024ade@linux...
>
> It will be fine.
>
> BTW, if you want an Adcom (they're very nice) let me know.
>
> We're dealers.
>
> DC
>
>
> "DJ" <animix_spam-this-ahole_@animas.net> wrote:
> >I'm waiting on a power amp to show up form my NS10M's. I tried a number
> of
> >amps that I had access to in this area and the one I like best wasn't one
> of
> >the Yamaha amps. It was, surprisingly (I guess) an Alesis Matica
> >900......very open, clean and detailed sounding with 270WPC.......so
anyway,
> >I found one and that's what's going to show up here next week to power
these
> >things. Maybe I'll change my mind, but that one seemed the best sounding
> of
> >the bunch to my ears. In the meantime I want to use them so I hooked them
> up
> >to a consumer grade Sony amp that is very clean and rated 230W /
impedance
> >use 6-16 ohms. That's pretty broad and the NS10M's are 8ohm IIRC, so I
> >oughta' be goo if I don't try to drive these puppies too
> >hard..........right?
> >
> >Deej
> >
> >
>
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