My Manley Mahi Mahi Arrives Today!

Deton Nation · February 18, 2010, 07:57:11 AM

Yeah!!!! Woohoo. I am now more Manley than ever. Will be driving Merlin VSM MX 89 efficiency in a small to med room. Hopefully they will cut it.
M

richidoo · February 18, 2010, 08:03:47 AM

Mitch Margolis is a genius designer. I bet you will love them. Manley has some of the cleverest tube circuits, best homemade iron and best service. I have their 300B amps, previously owned Snappers. It's a great brand all around. Congrats Mike

Deton Nation · February 18, 2010, 08:06:38 AM

Thanks! I am really stoked to hear my first tube amps in my system. I always had a tube preamp but never a tube amp. So much glass!
M

rollo · February 18, 2010, 08:38:04 AM

Quote from: Deton Nation on February 18, 2010, 07:57:11 AM
Yeah!!!! Woohoo. I am now more Manley than ever. Will be driving Merlin VSM MX 89 efficiency in a small to med room. Hopefully they will cut it.
M

If not Mahi Mahi is real good with Pinapple salsa. Enjoy should be agreat match. Time for a meeting ?

charles

mfsoa · February 18, 2010, 11:07:45 AM

Mike,
If you want to borrow my VAC PA100/100 amp anytime, lemme know

-Mike

richidoo · February 18, 2010, 11:15:33 AM

How many watts is Mahi? It's four EL84s per monoblock, right?

It will sound very different than the NuForces. Some things it will do better, others not as good. Class D bass is pretty awesome, but Manley amp high freqs are pretty awesome too. Get some violin records! hehe

Deton Nation · February 18, 2010, 11:18:23 AM

I think its supposed to have pretty good bass. Something about Joules being stored up making the bass a lot better. When compared to the Manley Integrated which has less bass.

rollo · February 18, 2010, 11:37:14 AM

Quote from: mfsoa on February 18, 2010, 11:07:45 AM
Mike,
If you want to borrow my VAC PA100/100 amp anytime, lemme know

-Mike

I would like to hear it on the Pipedreams if you have time.

charles

richidoo · February 18, 2010, 11:45:35 AM

My Snappers sounded very ballsy on the low stuff. They roll great iron, makes low output impedance, typically <2ohms actual Z, which is lower than most of the big names. Yet the transformers are still small. I don't know how they do it, but they claim to work really hard on the transformer designs, all wound in-house. Even my 300Bs have 1.8 ohm actual outputZ, makes nice bass.

Deton Nation · February 20, 2010, 07:26:21 AM

Sitting listening to them... Very nice. They are fast sounding, no flab. I like triode mode in standard feedback (6db), a little set back sound stage, where minimum is really close to the sound stage. They are not warm sounding like I thought they might be, pretty neutral. Great ambiance and they seem to play loud enough. I had to swap out my unshielded cables for shielded Blue Jean cables, as they are RF magnets. I also need to get some rubber feet (using Paper towels

) they vibrate on the cabinet a bit.

I biased them myself! (Im an uber technician!) I have to listen more before giving further impressions!
M

Deton Nation · February 20, 2010, 07:46:29 AM

Actually min feedback is nice too. I have to experiment more... lol

Deton Nation · February 20, 2010, 08:03:20 AM

Triode Pete said it was probably EMI not RF. I say OK.

MAn they sound fantastic! Listening to some Jack Johnson. fairly loud... nice prat, intimacy...

Who knew!

rollo · February 20, 2010, 08:08:29 AM

Cool. ENJOY ! Wubber feet ? Da cones da cones. Tube amps require some draining of resonance. Try either cones or a air bladder like the Arcicci stuff. Made a big difference for me with the Cyber 211s. Wubber will do zippo.
After about 100 hours of break in you'll be in tube heaven.

charles

richidoo · February 20, 2010, 08:31:04 AM

Alright Mike!!

I gotta get my Snappers back.

Deton Nation · February 25, 2010, 06:26:13 AM

I just ordered some grover sx for between pre and tube amp. Since I had to switch to a shielded cable (Blue Jean, only one I have) instead of my normal MAC Palladiums I have some grit upper mids and high that kind of wash out (which could be the recording also), So I am hoping Grovers cables will do the trick!