Which one...

[Oneminde]

1 or 10 watts, does not matter when it consumes 180 watt just sitting there... lol

 

[Russellc]

I have not heard the M2x. I've always been interested in building one though. I was surprised at how good Wayne's linestage is, and there is something I like about having some signal iron in there. I don't know what it is though... maybe a small amount of "pleasing" distortion without being too warm and gooey??? Just not sure. I use the balanced input option on the BA 2018. So it also serves as my balanced to SE converter. I power it with a killer PS, the Salas designed Ultra-Bib shunt reg and an overkill toroid.

I don't think you will find M2 too warm and gooey. While it surprised me greatly to learn it has a bit more 3rd order distortion than some other of the First Watt amps, I did still find it warm compared to F5 or F6.

Great sounding amp.

Russellc

 

[Oneminde]

Apparently there is the PASS BA-3 amp which has the P3 we also find in the F-5... also the BA-3 uses the same output FET's as the XA30.8 (IRFP240) and now I am confused.... I need to read up on the BA-3

 

[MEPER]

It is the BA-3 Pre (preamp for BA-3 power amp) that has P3 to adjust distortion.

 

[Oneminde]

It is the BA-3 Pre (preamp for BA-3 power amp) that has P3 to adjust distortion.

Oh okay... thanks. I am going to build the UGS Muses V2 (custom Salas shunt regulator PSU) no matter power amps, but the BA-3 amplifier sounds interesting, but so does the balanced version of the F-4 - both are current gain only so should theoretically sound better than an amplifier which has both voltage and current gain... so much to discover... he he