Benchmark AHB2 - Speaker Power Amplifier - Review

[@Soundnews]

Two likes from your brother 🤜🤛

[@HeadMania]

Thank you, Sandu! Appreciate it!

[@burnttoast4424]

This is off topic, but does anyone know of a good rca interconnect cable that is similar in sound signature and bass control to the audio quest sky's? The closest I've found was the Curious cables and maybe the JPS Labs superconductor rca cable.

[@DanAlexandruGheorghe]

This is an interesting question, especially since I actually own a pair of rca audioquest sky interconnects and also an xlr version of that. To be sincere, I haven't found something quite similar just yet. I did find different sound signatures, awesome at what they do as well, but not the same. For example, I have recently tested the charlin stars xlr interconnect, and I loved it for the bass, punchy/dynamic/energetic sound it brought to the system, but it wasn't necessarily as clean and controlled as sky.

[@burnttoast4424]

@@DanAlexandruGheorghe Thanks! I'm gonna check those out!

[@marksharman8029]

Two power amps into Susvara setup. Quick query ... how is that achieved, precisely?

[@HeadMania]

There is a cable -> speaker outputs from benchmark (banana) -> xlr .

[@marksharman8029]

@@HeadMania thanks for that

[@Smood47]

1. how does it compare to bliss (in the future please compare to other units) 2. Why does bliss run susvara well whereas this amp doesn't even though its more powerful than bliss ?

[@HeadMania]

1. I prefer bliss overall for headphones vs ahb2 because it is more versatile and sounds better with more type of headphones, from in ears to power hungry headphones. There are situations/headphones where AHB2 sounds a bit more controlled than bliss, for example with HE-1000SE, AHB2 will sound a bit more energetic, controlled/precise, snappy, where bliss will sound a bit fuller, more natural and more holographic in stage. 2. The power is calculated for speakers in 4 and 8 ohms, so the power in 50 - 300 ohms will be totally different. Also, while bliss sounds a bit fuller and natural than 1 ahb2 with susvara, neither are doing great with susvara if you ask me.

[@Smood47]

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[@MistaLova-Lova]

​@@HeadManiaWhat does do great with the Susvara then, in your experience?

[@kaybhee6]

for esl ,,, if u have only one amp... it overloads,,, not enuff power,,, huh...

[@HeadMania]

It worked well with only one on the esl11a.

[@thelonewolf666]

be nice to see the damn thing and not you