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From: drm2@mvuxn.att.com (David R Moran)
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Subject: Re: amplifier recommendation
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Date: 14 Aug 90 12:56:20 GMT
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NAD power amps have always been partly modeled on the concepts (some
of them) in the Apt design (good current delivery into difficult and/
or low-impedance loads). A working Apt at a good price that
is not too hissy should do you fine; a high-power NAD will go louder,
briefly, and a lower-power one will not. By power I mean that what matters in
audio in the home (depending on your speakers) is how much power a
given design can put out for a half-second, say, into the load it will
be driving. The only way to check this is to do it, alas. I do not think
you will go wrong with either choice. A newish NAD might be marginally
quieter than the Apt, which is by now probably a decade old....