hello,
i was buying the XP-25 a few months ago and love it to death. i was very curios about it, and gamble my dice greatly with it. to my taste of course...
now i think about the XP-20, to switch back and forth with my tube pre-amp, i am very curios about how an SS pre-amp will work with my tube amps, further more the balance option are also intrigue me a lot (i supposed connecting the XP-25 to a XP-20 in a balance way will benefits great sound, as with my Metronome C8 dac etc... )
i was asking pass labs if i can buy (from my local dealer of course.. ) an XP-20 controller without his PS, as i have one with my XP-25, (you already know... that the XP series PS can "handle" two controllers...)
pass lab answer was; "that i can, but:
a combination of a xp-25 and xp-20 with same power supply doesn't sound as good as they do with their own supplies, but better than an xp-25 and xp-15..."
its was an obvious answer from their part, and a logical one of course.
but my question is if any of you guys had the actual experience with such configuration and was comparing it with two PS, each for the 20 and for the 25...
how much of a difference is it actually in practice?, not in theory.
my other question is regarding of stack them up, if i will decide to buy the full XP20...
i will have just 2 room for the 4 boxes in my racks.
how you will stack them? XP-25 with its own P.S - i actually work with it like that (with a HRS nimbus dividing them a bit...) and the XP-20 the same? or you will stack the PS together and the controllers together in a different shelf?
thank you guys for any comments on the subject.
i was buying the XP-25 a few months ago and love it to death. i was very curios about it, and gamble my dice greatly with it. to my taste of course...
now i think about the XP-20, to switch back and forth with my tube pre-amp, i am very curios about how an SS pre-amp will work with my tube amps, further more the balance option are also intrigue me a lot (i supposed connecting the XP-25 to a XP-20 in a balance way will benefits great sound, as with my Metronome C8 dac etc... )
i was asking pass labs if i can buy (from my local dealer of course.. ) an XP-20 controller without his PS, as i have one with my XP-25, (you already know... that the XP series PS can "handle" two controllers...)
pass lab answer was; "that i can, but:
a combination of a xp-25 and xp-20 with same power supply doesn't sound as good as they do with their own supplies, but better than an xp-25 and xp-15..."
its was an obvious answer from their part, and a logical one of course.
but my question is if any of you guys had the actual experience with such configuration and was comparing it with two PS, each for the 20 and for the 25...
how much of a difference is it actually in practice?, not in theory.
my other question is regarding of stack them up, if i will decide to buy the full XP20...
i will have just 2 room for the 4 boxes in my racks.
how you will stack them? XP-25 with its own P.S - i actually work with it like that (with a HRS nimbus dividing them a bit...) and the XP-20 the same? or you will stack the PS together and the controllers together in a different shelf?
thank you guys for any comments on the subject.
