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nebbertron

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  1. I'm going to disagree with what I've read here and elsewhere about the NHT Classic 3s requiring a lot of power. I initially hooked mine up to a pair of Outlaw Model 200 monoblocks, which are 200 watts each. Some albums sounded good--classical music, recordings where the singer's voice is the most prominent part of the mix--but everything else sounded terrible. I don't know the technical way of describing it, but it sounded as if too much current was pushing the drivers to work against each other rather than with each other. The different elements of the mix didn't gel, so to speak. There was also this discordant, sour quality in the upper mid range. Brass and guitar were especially bad. I put on Sun Ra and it sounded like I was listening to an ice cream truck. Miles Davis sounded like a strangled duck. Guitar rock just sounded noisy. I switched out the Outlaws for a much cheaper Chinese T AMP, the Topping 60 and the sound quality improved immensely. The Topping nominally delivers 50 watts at 8 ohms, though who knows what it's really delivering, and it has no problem driving the NHTs. Plenty loud for my purposes (fairly nearfield, small room), no clipping.
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