Friend of mine can buy a pair of original Pass X-600 mono's.
We wonder if they can drive his Acoustat 4400 electrostatics that are not the easiest load for a amp.
He currently operates them with Levinson 20.6's
I've seen a German review of the 600's and fond as those Germans are for 'Daten' they depicted a kind of 3D waterfall relation between load, angle and voltage where at the lower impedances the X-600's sagged their voltage quite a lot. It's not a real voltagesource like the 20.6 or Krells but probably is not intended to be. Is that a problem with loads like from Acoustats and low efficiency (82dB). I've no handson experience with this amp.
Can a X-600 easily be converted to a X-160 or even a 160.5?
It's in principle the same difference as the Threshold S/1000 and SA/1 I suppose?
The former is a bridged topology and the latter a mono-parallel configuration if I'm right.
Thanks in advance.
We wonder if they can drive his Acoustat 4400 electrostatics that are not the easiest load for a amp.
He currently operates them with Levinson 20.6's
I've seen a German review of the 600's and fond as those Germans are for 'Daten' they depicted a kind of 3D waterfall relation between load, angle and voltage where at the lower impedances the X-600's sagged their voltage quite a lot. It's not a real voltagesource like the 20.6 or Krells but probably is not intended to be. Is that a problem with loads like from Acoustats and low efficiency (82dB). I've no handson experience with this amp.
Can a X-600 easily be converted to a X-160 or even a 160.5?
It's in principle the same difference as the Threshold S/1000 and SA/1 I suppose?
The former is a bridged topology and the latter a mono-parallel configuration if I'm right.
Thanks in advance.
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