What Amp Are You Using With Moreplay?

[David Joiner]

Setup:
Music Streamer: Bluesound Node2i streaming Tidal
DAC: Schiit Bifrost 2
Pre-amp: Bottlehead Moreplay
Power Amp: Schiit Aegir
Speakers: Zu Audio Dirty Weekends
Apparel: Bottlehead Baseball cap

Sound is superb!

[marioed]

I've got my Moreplay connected to my Crack with Speedball and a Decware SE84UFO amp into a pair of Omega Junior 8 XRS speakers. Using some new production Mullard 6V6GT's at the moment but have a selection of 6K6 tubes coming in tomorrow that I'm looking forward to trying.

Regards,
Mario

[jlizaso]

I am using mostly my class A Pass DIY amps.  ACA, F4 and Aleph J.

[Tubegopher]

Setup:
Music Streamer: Bluesound Node2i streaming Tidal
DAC: Schiit Bifrost 2
Pre-amp: Bottlehead Moreplay
Power Amp: Schiit Aegir
Speakers: Zu Audio Dirty Weekends
Apparel: Bottlehead Baseball cap

Sound is superb!

Hi David, I am no doubt older than you at 71, but I have been into audio for many years. Back in the 70's, I managed a high end stereo store called Magnolia Hi Fi. I ran the original Magnolia village store. Point being I am "old school" on some of the newer items today. I am wondering if you can let me know how you use your Music Streamer: Bluesound Node2i streaming Tidal? I do stream from my phone to my system with a dragonfly DAC in between currently, but are there advantages to this Node 2i? I am in the dark. Thanks, Don

[nipsy]

I've hooked the Moreplay into my Decware ZKIT 1. As I primarily play vinyl, I use the ifi Zen phono stage. The music is magically coming out of a pair of Klipsch Heresy 1 speakers. The Moreplay was such an improvement, I'm considering building an Eros 2.

[RANGE DOG]

Dared monoblocks

[mosquitorojo]

Setup:
Music Streamer: Bluesound Node2i streaming Tidal
DAC: Schiit Bifrost 2
Pre-amp: Bottlehead Moreplay
Power Amp: Schiit Aegir
Speakers: Zu Audio Dirty Weekends
Apparel: Bottlehead Baseball cap

Sound is superb!

Hi David,

I have my moreplay hooked up to a Carver CM1090 amp (with the preamp bypassed), and I wanted to try an aegir power amp. I have a pair of psb imagine x1t speakers, which have a sensitivity of 90db and are 8 ohms. Do you think the aegir could run my speakers?

Cheers!

Mauro

[hmbscott]

Two amps, a Nobsound 6P1 (class-A SET all signal-path caps upgraded) & a pair of ACA's configured as mono blocks and driven using the balanced inputs. The amps drive the speakers through an A/B switch (Douk Audio VU3).

My system setup:
Ortofon 2m Bronze              Airplay
U-Turn Orbit Theory          WIIM Mini
        Eros 2                     Aries II DAC     
                     Moreplay > second out > Crack + Speedball > HD 650
                       Main out
                            V
                 Schiit Lokius eq
      SE out                        balanced out
         V                                    V
Nobsound 6P1                ACA Mono Blocks
                    A/B switch
Hsu Research ULS-15 MK2 subwoofer
DYI DML panel speakers

Sounds amazing and has been super fun to build!

[hddeluxe1]

  I'm using the Moreplay with 6v6 cv 509 coke bottle tubes with
  the Reduction phono preamp with integration upgrade.
  A Fluance RT85 with Ortofon 2M blue running through a pair of
  KT 88 monoblocks by Quicksilver through a pair of
  Klipsch  Forte II.

[adeep42]

Elekit TU8600

[dth31]

Heavily modified DIYHiFiSupply 300B monoblocks
ANK Audiokits EL34 monoblocks
Bottlehead and Paul Birkeland-modified Paramount 2A3s
AudioNote Kit 4 AN/E speakers

[stuart.mclean]

AnalogEthos Legendarium -> Tekton Lores
I’ll be starting my Kaiju build as soon as the chassis comes back from powder coating

[timindq]

I'm feeding a Benchmark AHB2 amp. The Benchmark has XLR input only so I fabricated some cables to fit. Source is a Lumin D2 with an excellent volume control so I rarely adjust the Moreplay's volume knob. Turntable is on permanent vacation.

[Rockyhill]

I'm considering a Moreplay to pair with my Dynakit ST-35.

I believe this will be compatible for impedance matching:

Moreplay Output impedance: less than 3.2Kohms at all levels. For 1V in/1V out, 2.1Kohms.

ST-35 INPUT IMPEDANCE:        500K OHMS

500/3.2 = 156.25

I understand a ration of 10-1 is an absolute minimum with 50 to 75-1 preferred.

Is this a good pairing?

[Paul Joppa]

Yes, that's fine.

I'll just note that a typical SET amp drives a speaker with an impedance ratio of around 3:1 and sounds fine - so 10:1 is more nearly overkill than an "absolute minimum," at least in some cases.