BrianRostron said:Ah .. the reply works, so I will post the question as a response!
The Devialet 240 retails at £11,800 with the 170 at £6,390. So thats over £5000 extra for the additional 70 watts more. Now an extra 70watts is not that much more when you start with 170, double the watts get 3dba more, so less than 2 dba extra for your 70 watts (or 5k) (in therory I know, with 2ohm speaker loads etc this is a dark art)
The point is that I have read that the 170 sounds the same as the 240. If true, this makes the 170 very good value or the 240 a rip off, depending on how you look at it.
Is there more to the 240 than just the 70 watts? Does anyone know the facts? More power is obviously better, but 5K??
BrianRostron said:Yup... That's part of the demo tomorrow, the 240 & then the 170 with the blades. Will be interesting I'm sure
BrianRostron said:Just a quick update. I listened to the Blades with the Devialet 240 and the 170. With the 170 a whole chunk of the bass extension and definition was gone versus listening with the 240, I was very supprised by the difference. So in conclusion the Blades need power, probably a low ohms issue with the four bass drivers. So deffinately worth looking into alternative amplification but I suspect it needs to be of the high current "meaty" veriety. I started thinking that there would be little difference going down to the 170, in therory loosing less than 2dba spl, now I'm thinking two bridged Devialets would be better, but this is getting into silly money. This hi fi business can be an annpying game sometimes!
Interestingly, the guys in the shop stated that with the majority of speakers they get no noticable difference between the 170 and 240, so the Blades must be a demanding load somewhere.
BrianRostron said:Electro - The Nemo's look interesting but push the budget up even higher! Although I note that there is a 400w version, that together with a pre-amp would come in below Devialet 240 money ..... I wonder.... I'm sure 400w per side should be at least "adequate" and is indeed the rated power of the Blades. Might be worh investigating further.
Flatearth50 said:The usual digital processed effect was there.