Amplifier power

**Eeyore** · October 13th 08, 09:10 PM posted to uk.rec.audio,rec.audio.tech.

wrote:

I should also mention that I was thinking of using a Benchmark DAC1 as
a pre-amp (hence my post elsewhere on this group). So I'm thinking
about a power amp. Is the Quad 909 needlessly powerful for example?
I want a well built amp of sufficient power for my modestly sized room
and quite sensitive speakers.

Get a *professional* amp not bloody 'hi-fi' if you're serious. You can pick them
up used and still in excellent condition on ebay for pennies in the pound. They
may have some 'rack rash' from touring but they'll utterly blow away audiophool
****.

For example I recently bought one of my own designs, a Studiomaster 700D (which is
only 200+200W into 8 ohms but that's fine for just drining SR tweeters) for a mere
£62. It was 10 1/2 years old yet looked (apart from the scratches on the outside)
about 2 years old inside.

s/n ratio ? 100dB UNWEIGHTED - about 113dB A-weighted.
THD ? 0.008% @ 1 kHz into 8 ohms at rated power.
Full power bandwidth ? 45 kHz !
Freq response ? +0, -0.2 dB @ 20 Hz and 20kHz. (or +/- 0.1dB if you prefer it that
way).

Hi-Fi ? Doesn't even come close. Not even within spitting distance.

Graham