Where is ricmon?
I want to know the outcome of the preamp. I hope your not mad. We just don't want you to blow your amps or ears up. How about another set of speakers, like some JBL professional PA monitors when you have the need to test Frank's amp. Save the "good" speakers for critical listening? When I was young, I had a Marantz 3300 preamp with a 250 power amp. That was pretty good stuff for the time (1972). My speakers were JBL-L100's. That was about it. I too, had the itchy finger on the volume control. Christ, I blew up a pair of AR-5's for God's sake. That couldn't be done. I wanted to hear my system at concert levels. So, I bi-amped the L-100's and used a Dynaco Stereo 120 on the mid-range and tweeter. Lucky for me the gain of the 2 amps was close and the JBL's seemed to go to that..I call it the 5th level. When a song was over, your ears kind of tingled, like at a concert. I guess I just grew out of cranking it like that. I will push my Martin-Logans to a high level, but they can take the power as well.
Rock on you crazy dude!
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