Evil Emperor
Taller Than Stalin
...to run a (so called) better, more powerful, or feature laden amplifier than say Rega's Brio-R? I'm interested foremost in your personal stories.
Me, I don't have such an excuse, I'm afraid. My speakers are easy to drive (says Nait Two), my living/listening room is light and not too demanding in the audio sense, my budget allows no more for an amplifier, I have no room for more than one box on the rack. I could live happily with a Brio (or a Nait 5i).
So, what's your excuse and how would you convince me if you'd think that I'm wrong.
Kind regards to all,
Klyde
Nothing 'so-called' about it.
The Brio-R is the kind of typically underpowered amplifier we British use to undernourish our loudspeakers. Because we are backward-looking and impecunious, we have learned to live with floppy, no bass sound instead of taut, grippy bass because we get physically scared of anything greater than about 70W. None of which need apply today.
Worse, because the output of our amplifiers is so dreadfully gutless, we are limited to using either obsolete and hideously coloured horn systems or teeny-tiny box speakers with midrange drive units acting as woofers. We then plaster over the cracks in this great audio mistake by blindly following the endless streams of BS about how much 'PRaT' they have (or some other nonsense), ably manipulated by dealers blinded by their inability to make a real sale who think small is beautiful.
We even moderate our music tastes to accommodate this weakness in amplifier design, by playing folk and jazz that doesn't challenge the limits of the equipment. Listen to any of Bruckner's symphonies (but especially the Ninth) and see what this does to music.