I'm still looking for an amp to power my soon to be mine Nautilus 802s, so I keep bombarding this forum with questions
I can buy a Classe CA-401 (2 months old) for $4600 or I can get 2 Classe CAM-350 new for $6000.
$1400 is a heafty price difference ($4600 is already stretching the budget) and sound-wise I seriously doubt if the difference will be audible between the mono blocks and the stereo amp. I know a lot of people say that the CAM-350s are better, but are they $1400 better?
BUT one of the advantages of having monoblocks is that you can put them next to your speakers. Then I'll have to use longer XLR calbes so I guess the money you save from not having to buy long speaker wires will have to be invested in XLR cables.
I have no idea yet about pricing of descent cables, that's the one thing I haven't started to investigate yet. However I don't want to buy thousands of dollars for cables anyway.
My room is 15 feet wide, so I was planning to buy about 18 feet of speaker cables if I go with the CA-401. Of course bi-wiring would double the cost of the speaker wires (again I think the difference between single wiring or bi-wiring would be minimal, but I have never tried it out...)
One plus for the CA-401: that's just such a sweet looking amp, the CAM-350s are, well, ugly in comparison. However monoblocks do look 'cool'
I can buy a Classe CA-401 (2 months old) for $4600 or I can get 2 Classe CAM-350 new for $6000.
$1400 is a heafty price difference ($4600 is already stretching the budget) and sound-wise I seriously doubt if the difference will be audible between the mono blocks and the stereo amp. I know a lot of people say that the CAM-350s are better, but are they $1400 better?
BUT one of the advantages of having monoblocks is that you can put them next to your speakers. Then I'll have to use longer XLR calbes so I guess the money you save from not having to buy long speaker wires will have to be invested in XLR cables.
I have no idea yet about pricing of descent cables, that's the one thing I haven't started to investigate yet. However I don't want to buy thousands of dollars for cables anyway.
My room is 15 feet wide, so I was planning to buy about 18 feet of speaker cables if I go with the CA-401. Of course bi-wiring would double the cost of the speaker wires (again I think the difference between single wiring or bi-wiring would be minimal, but I have never tried it out...)
One plus for the CA-401: that's just such a sweet looking amp, the CAM-350s are, well, ugly in comparison. However monoblocks do look 'cool'
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