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These sounded pretty good at Toprounds Rave last Saturday.......
Both enclosures work for me, although the one that provides the most sonic improvement is preferred. If enclosure size and looks don't change the sonics, then I will go with the cheapest enclosure, as all my electronics are sight unseen!Am I right in assuming that this amplifier is about 5-6 dB less gain than most in the industry that are 26dB overall gain?Best,Anand.
All other things being equal I like the longer shorter case.Personally I would like the case to look both swish and distinctive.Let me re-phrase that, I would like the case to look extremely swish and extremely distinctive.I would be prepared to pay a little bit more (not a massive amount more) to achieve this swish distinctive look.I love my gear to look the goods as well as sound the goods.Also I am not all that fond of bland boring looking gear.Why not have the best of both worlds, both sound and looks?I think it would be really sad to let down the great sound with a cheap and shabby presentation. Hope that helps with input.Thanks for all of this update information.Please keep it coming!Thanks.Bruce
Am I seeing things or does the longer case look like it was intended to be bolted to something else? The slots in the corners look to me like it should be bolted to the back of a speaker cabinet, or a wall.Anand brings up some good points. Does one case or the other improve the layout of the internal components from a performance perspective? From a serviceability perspective? Also, I'm not sure I would be sold on having the connectors arranged to make the amp an "in-line" device - power, input and output connectors on a shared side would be more along the lines of a traditional amplifier in regards to placing it on a stand/rack? Third, I know a lot of folks running with top shelf gear use cabling the size of garden hoses. Does one case design or the other end up more stable in regards to the added cable weight causing the amp to sit at an odd angle with cables connected? Last, I may not be seeing it, but where is the power switch?
The "cube case" can be hung from the speaker wires since it is so light. I've used inexpensive wire about 6" long for this with great results. When the wire is very short, the parasitics pretty much vanish. This practically eliminates speaker wire from the equation, and that can be a very good thing for the sound.
On the back of an old pair of Advent's....you'd be surprised what it sounded like...I was...