Posted by Lew H [ 165.121.59.71 ] on December 02, 2004 at 11:33:12:
In Reply to: SEX vs DECWARE posted by DanTheMan on December 01, 2004 at 14:27:38:
Dan,
I've been listening to the SEX amp daily for the last month. It does
a very good job. You have to use high efficiency speakers with these
low output amps and they have to be DEAD quiet. The SEX amp is totally quiet. I can crank all of its 2watts and hear absolute
blackness when placing my ear against the driver (101db eff). Not many amps at any price are capable of providing an absolute dead quiet background. Frankly, Bottlehead's phono amp is also the quietest phono amp/stage that I've heard.
I'm listening to a tweaked SEX amp that I picked up last night to listen to for a couple of days and it is better than the stock SEX amp. I don't know where Doc is on offering an upgrade to the stock SEX amp, since it is so new, but, even if the price were trippled of the stock unit, it wouldn't find much competition for price/sound. Heck, listening to it now, and it is very nice.
Sorry, don't have experience with the Decware stuff--have only heard it once and that was some years ago.
Regards,
Lew