My Cary 300B SEI amp is in the shop so I picked up a little Decware integrated. The Cary puts out 15 watts and the Decware SE34I.3 puts out 6 watts. My speakers are 97db efficiency Audio Note speakers.I pretty much have to run the Decware at 90% of the max volume to get the same volume as 30% on the Cary which is perfectly understandable.
Question: The Decware sounds pretty damn good and warms up much quicker than the Cary. Does running the Decware at nearly full volume hit its sweet spot where for the Cary, my room is too small to find its sweet spot?
(Please no flaming about why the Cary sucks, etc.)
Edits: 05/03/23
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Topic - SET Amp Sweet Spot - dsockel 04:46:58 05/03/23 (11)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - Triode_Kingdom 16:12:00 05/03/23 (9)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - Paul Joppa 23:07:53 05/03/23 (8)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - morricab 07:42:37 01/15/24 (0)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - Retsel 14:25:51 07/21/23 (4)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - sony6060 02:05:01 07/23/23 (3)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - sony6060 14:38:23 08/11/23 (2)
- SET'ers...we are a splinter group... in a splinter corner.... - The Killer Piglet 19:19:14 08/16/23 (1)
- RE: SET'ers...we are a splinter group... in a splinter corner.... - RPMac 05:44:51 08/17/23 (0)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - Ian L 16:22:35 05/10/23 (0)
- RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot - Triode_Kingdom 10:58:36 05/05/23 (0)
- You might be conflating "volume" with output power and sensitivity - Chip647 09:01:11 05/03/23 (0)