I just got a Shanling MC30 tube cd player(3wpc) . I own a NAD 2400 power amp and ESS AMT 1A speakers. Can I bi-amp the NAD& Shanling for more power?
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The Shanling MC 30 is a poor match for the ESS AMT 1A speakers. While it has very good sound quality, it has nowhere near the power to drive these speakers. Even if you were to biamp them, using the Shanling to drive the high end and the NAD to drive the bottom end, you would not be happy with the end result. You would do much better to find a pair of high-sensitivity speakers that are designed to be used with flea-power amplifiers like the MC 30. Sell the NAD and the ESS speakers and use the proceeds to pay part of the cost of new speakers. The Shanling MC 30 does not provide a line level preamp output, so you cannot connect it to an external power amplifier. Don't try and use a transformer to match the Shanling's power outputs to a power amp's inputs, as there will be a substantial loss of quality - inexpensive transformers are not good enough for such an application, particularly at low frequencies. The NAD itself is not as good an amp as the Shanling and would be a poor match acoustically for biamping - the two amps have quite different sounds.
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