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Re: Why exactly do you think the Halos are a limiting factor?


I was recently with a friend who was auditioning amplifiers, specifically the Halo JC mono. The "default" amplifier hooked up in the room was the Halcro dm88 monos that at the time were paired with some Joseph Audio Pearls. We had an opportunity to listen for quite some time to this set up until the salon owner made the switch to the Halos. Bottom line is that I (we) could not tell any difference in audio quality between the two set up. This seemed evident even though the Halos about $6,000 a pair and the Halcros, what, about $65,000 a pair.

(I thought [but not my friend] that the Halos exhibited a wee bit more authority [in a positive way] in the low end. But I may have been biased by the fact that the Halos have considerably more measured power than the Halcro and the JM Pearls are on the low side with respect to efficiency like the B&W line).

Of course, we did not tell the dealer of our observation (because we did want to seem stupid (smile).

The point is the two amps are indeed in different "leagues", but different "price" leagues, and different "prestige" leagues, but not is different "audible" or "sonic" leagues in spite of the tenfold difference in price. Having listened to systems with the Halcros *many* times and to the Halos a couple of times, I say that with a reasonable degree of certainty.

Don't get me wrong. I would chose the Halcro over the Halo in a nano second because of it distinctive looks, the prestige factor, and it *may* be, (but may be not) be more "bullet proof". (I don't think there is any speaker outside of the Apogee that would tax either ones topology aside from power limitations). But I would not chose the Halcro because it *sounded* better. Because it doesn't sound better (or worse), at least not in the varied situations I have heard it.


Robert C. Lang

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