What best amp to drive Everest DD55000

[jfrou]

If you have $9,000 U.S., you may want to audition a pair of Manley Neo-Classic 250s. You have some very good suggestions. Now it comes to your ears and wallet. Good luck!

The ears could certainly accept them but the wallet....

[jfrou]

I am very pleased with Nelson Pass constructions on JBL. So you could look at First Watt F5 and J2(the F5 is tighter in the bass and more forward in the mid/hf). They are only 25wpc, so an alternative if you are looking for more power are e.g. PassLabs XA160.

The older Aleph's rj2077 mentioned are very much worth trying.

Let's have a look on PassLabs...

Some people also suggested PLINIUS amps. Any comments?

[Loren42]

Quad 909.

[robertbartsch]

I grew up in the time before solid state electronics so, over the years, I have expereinced many quality and mediocore tube amps. Personnaly, I would not give two pence (cents) for a tube amp today; there are too many good reasons to go with SS.

A good SS amp with at least 200wpc will make these puppies sing!

[rj2077]

for under $1000 you can have the aleph 3. for $1500 you can have the aleph 5. for $2500-300 you can buy the aleph 2 (mono-blocks). trust me. i tried many tube amps, some vintage (refurbished) and other new ones: 300 B's, 6550's, EL 34's, tri-ode, pentode.... and on and on..... nothing made the horn and tweeter sound so good as the pass amps. sure the bass was lacking, but that woofer was not made to go sown that low.
I use a B-460 to cover anything below 150Hz with my set up. i tried threshold, krell and others. now they only drive the B-460...

regards,

[jfrou]

The Pass items seem to take the lead

[keeratikul]

I will be the owner of these beast in the next couple of weeks. I have several amps to try but I am using Audio Reseach D 200 Mk II. I hope they will make good pair.

[ronaltronics]

Did you buy those beasties new, And how long have you owned them.

Well how about a classic amplifier.

Classe DR-3 and run them mono. One for each DD55000.

Vintage JBL Everest / Vintage Classe mono blocks.............

[richluvsound]

Quad 909.

Owned them for about 2 weeks ... absolutely nothing to offer a 15 inch woofer ! no where near enough power I found the sound flat and boring . Great if you just want background muzak !

just a once owners opinion ...



Pass Labs all the way

Rich

[caladois]

In fact, the DD55000 is not that hard to drive. It appears that a lot of models should work with, but will they perform ?
Personnally, I wouldn't go for Mcintosh. What is your budget ?

Mc cormack, Bryston, Threshold audio or Perreaux could be excellent midline values.
In High end, the choice is larger, but the money too ...

[keeratikul]

I am bit confused what to do with these speaker. With the major reason that my everest is still a custom seaport. I will not be able to have them in my roon in the next 2 wks. As the sensitivity is very high. So it sound like only 45 tube, or my quad II should be more than enough. But some comment prefer kickass amplifier. I will be able to get Alph 0 monoblock at US$ 3,000. Worth to try ?

Oh ! one more thing, I am from Thailand, Asia. This speaker i import second hand from Korea.

[JoeNelis]

While I'm sure McIntosh makes some fine amps, there are many other brands that sound as good or better. As your friend suggests, you may be doing yourself a favor by looking into some modern solid state amps. Personally, I like the big Krells. And my KSA-300s does not run hot at all. In fact it barely gets warm. With something like that, or the Krell FPB series, or one of the large Mark Levinson amps or Halcro amps.... I think you'll be surprised at how they can open up your Everests.

I would have too agree, I run a krell 300s on my everest's and sounds great !!
Krell preamp and wadia 23 cd sounds nice.... But I am considering Macintosh 501 mono
Blocks, very impressive !! Spend the money on good quality amps worth the effort in my opinion, just my personal thoughts ...

[richluvsound]

Pass is very good value for money .... reliable , beautiful and amazing sound !

[keeratikul]

The speaker delivered today. I tried to driver them with ARC D 200 Mk II. Um... so far so good...

[tom1040]

I have grown quite fond of my (new to me) Marantz MA9S2 mono blocks.