Advice needed for 4430

[waves]

Dear All,

A newbie to JBL speakers, but i like what i hear and thinking of pursuing this path. Not that i am unhappy with my current pair of speaker(Harbeth C7ES2) just that rock music is a tad polite.

It could have been the equipments that i am unfamiliar with, some China SET amp driving it, i find 4430 lack in body. Very incisive, bass and soundstage is incredible. Will Exposure pre-power 40 watts monobloc suffice to drive 4430, since i gathered here, they thrive with hundreds of watts.

Best regards

[grumpy]

If using a single amp (not bi-amping), I would expect you could find a better pairing of
speaker and amp, as you have already perceived from experience/comments here.

[robertbartsch]

I don't know why anyone would want to drive these speakers with a tube amp but lots here and elsewhere like tube amps and they have a growing following. I began this hobby before solid state amps were availible, so this may have something to do with my dislike of them.

Try the 4430s with a good quality SS amp of +150wpc to get the full impact of their great capablities.

[CountD]

I have a pair of 4430s that go well with my McIntosh MC2300 - 300 Watts per channel (more like 420+) and it sounds very good. The MC2300 is one of the first larger Mc amps designed that came out in 1971 - around ten years earlier than the 4430, and is not the cleanest amp out there but does have a warm, unique sound. Other people on this board have used the 4430 with a MC2300, MC2500, and MC2600 with mixed results but I really like the earlier Mc solid state sound and really it matches well with the 4430 - for me. You can hook something smaller to these and they still sound great - like an MC250 or MC2505 (50-75 watts), MC2105 (105 watts) and an MC2155 (150 watts) - and I have - and they all sound fine and acceptable, but not as good as a brute amp like the MC2300.

[MikeM]

I had a pair of 4430 I got from the old auction site called "Digibid" $410 missing the grills. In excellent shape. I ended up running these with Crown Delta Omega 2000 amps Mono Blocks. I think they clipped at 875 a side and the 4430 loved every last watt. As a matter of fack I clipped the ^%$# out the deltas on some stuff and was ready to get 2K a side for the 4430 but I got out of them. You can add another 2235H wirh proper parts and duplicate the larger 4435 which i did. the woofers for the 4435 are 2234H I belieive with lighter cone assblys. Ect.

[MikeM]

I have a pair of 4430s that go well with my McIntosh MC2300 - 300 Watts per channel (more like 420+) and it sounds very good. The MC2300 is one of the first larger Mc amps designed that came out in 1971 - around ten years earlier than the 4430, and is not the cleanest amp out there but does have a warm, unique sound. Other people on this board have used the 4430 with a MC2300, MC2500, and MC2600 with mixed results but I really like the earlier Mc solid state sound and really it matches well with the 4430 - for me. You can hook something smaller to these and they still sound great - like an MC250 or MC2505 (50-75 watts), MC2105 (105 watts) and an MC2155 (150 watts) - and I have - and they all sound fine and acceptable, but not as good as a brute amp like the MC2300.
Yes I had that Mc2300 powerhouse amp like 130Lbs- 3 fans kick in on a high drive level.
That amp has a higher standing bias as it idles very warm