Thanks for your reply.
I agree that if you have a speaker that is known to be, to the extent possible given today's texhnology, totally neutral there are plenty of other places in the audio chain to add a bit of Salt/Pepper flavor to the sound if one finds that it's needed.
Have you tried your Solution amps with your Magico's? It's my understanding they are known to be very neutral. If you have tried them what are your impressions compared to a more flavor adding tube amp on the speakers?
I would say that all my gear minus the speakers I own are known to be very neutral. My power feed from the wall is also very clean despite not using any form of conditioning so I guess I'm pretty lucky in that regard. I have X 6 dedicated 20amp circuits using 10gauge romex at a pretty short distance away from the breaker box. Currently electrical related noise is is all but inaudible and requires ear resting on tweeter grille to even barley hear any hiss at all. Moving ear 2 inches away from tweeter grille results in that hiss going away completely.
The noise floor of the Hypex amps has been measured to be around -124db down which is even lower then that of my PreAmp which is around -118db down
(Classe CP-800) so I think I'm covered in terms of providing an appropriately clean front end before the Magico's.
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