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[DANGERDAN]
More research for me and i found a really good story over from the klipsch forums, one guy was having a problem with getting any bass from his khorn monster speakers with his dual mono tube amps.
After his efforts of ruling out a room issues and things like phase connection he decided to get a class A amp and he retrieved his ground thumping bass like that, he came to the conclusion that the amp was designed for efficient or more respectively (loud) speakers.
The amp was drowning out the LF signal with more HF, either because of a power issue (impedance) or because of the design of the amp itself and just the sound it makes.
But all and all Amps do make a difference and with a little test myself i am now more convinced than ever of his theory.
By running a tone generator i played a 200hz signal and placed one amp to the left speaker and another to the right giving me the option to switch the signal between amps from a click of a button.
After playing the signal and adjusting the SPL of each speaker to a relatively identical sound levels for both speakers i left the sound sensitivity and played a song from my list, i found that with the sony amp i could hear all singing voices come through nice and loud but the marantz amp was like a whisper in the night.
So from that i found the sony was drowning out the sub sounds because of the HF output (2khz^), giving me the possibility to raise the SPL signal on the marantz and get that better LF sound.
Sorry if this gets annoying but i do enjoy posting my finds, there is a question in this however.
I was using 3.5m analog jack (asus D2X ultra) for the marantz and hdmi (ATI 5870) digital for the sony, what kind of sound effect if there is one does these two have in difference, :) thanks fellas.