"Taste matters"
Yes it certainly does, completely agreed Des. Completely.
Doesn't electrical matching matter too?
My point about Harbeth and Shindo is not a taste issue as much as it is an electrical issue. Output transformers in most Shindo amps are set up for and designed for 16 ohm loads optimally. 8 ohms is okay too. 6 ohms is pushing it. 6 ohms and 84db is just a bad idea. Electrically! The amp is not only mismatched in its reflective impedance, its being driven hard at the same time to compensate for the low sensitivity. The reflected impedance causes current to rise, tubes and transformers are pushed hard and out of their ideal zone. Premature tube failure is just one possibility.... It has nothing to do with power supply. It has nothing to do with the weight of an amplifier or the size of transformers as has been suggested in previous threads. Just like kicking tires tells one nothing about the performance of an automobile.
So yes, taste matters. So does electrical matching.
Jonathan
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