JOB Monoblocks

The 250 pair subjectively feels 3 to 4 X more powerful than a single 225. Similar sound signature, but seemingly "grippier" bass. The listening session lasted an hour or so, with a JOB pre2 driving a pair of ProLogos passive speakers ($35K retail). The ProLogos is a big standmount speaker in an Alum... cabinet with a laminated wood finish.

The look of the Job stack in dim light is very attractive too, surprisingly so.

I will try to get a loaner of a 250 pair and a 225 to home demo and flesh out the differences in more detail in the coming weeks. The big take away message is MUCH more power, so refinement meets real GRUNT.
 
All that I have read about JOB during the last year (and I've read every single word there is on the web) sounds just great. Mr. wisnon, in your opinion, if I have absolutely no need for such power which monoblocks deliver, should I go for JOB 225, or do you think that I should consider monoblocks nevertheless for sound quality reasons? Thank you.
 
Mate, I will let you know when I get more up close and personal with them.

First though, you need to define what speakers you intend to use! Easy to drive like hi-eff horns??

My sense is that the 225 will have better bass no matter what.
 
I intend to built the rest of my future system around JOB amplification. JOB will be its heart, music is the soul, everything else (speakers, player, cables) will have to fit heart and soul. :)
 
Then you should get the Sweetcord too!

Can you spell out your intended system for me?
 
Amplification will be Job. Because I have never ever seen so much praise and excitement and unanimity about any audio component. And I want something really good which I'll use for many years. After disapointments in British, Japanese and American stuff, I decided to settle with continental Europe. :) Job I could afford. Gryphon, Goldmund, Nagra, Mimetism and such I can't. Of course I will buy Sweetcord too. I need to decide which Job exactly. Soon there will be integrated amp out too, so then I'll have 3 choices. Stereo power amp + preamp sounds like the most likely combination. But I have to solve a problem of headphones. I'm used to have a socket for headphones on my amps. So I'll probably need some device which will serve both as head-amp and DAC. My computer needs to be connected to DAC which will be connected to pre-amp. The only other two components which will go into pre-amp are CD player and blu-ray player. I have both, and I plan to keep my blu-ray and to sell a CD player to get a better one. I have one serious custom made power cord (I use it for CD player) which I'll keep, but all other cables will go, I intend to change them all when Job and new speakers come. Of course, the biggest question here is WHICH SPEAKERS, but I'm far from that now. After I get my Job (sometime in 2015 I think) I'll come back here asking for advice on speakers. Merci.
 
The speaker decision will influence which amp you want. Easy to drive speakers and the 225 is the logical/economical choice. Harder to drive and the monos rule the roost.

Not sure when the Job integrated will be ready. I think its jus an ideas stage now, but of course it will be easy to implement as they already have the sum of the parts. The Integrated when it comes will be the most economical route, I imagine.
 
wisnon, I know that the usual route is to find speakers first, and then to choose amplification according to speakers. But I have decided to go the other way around. Because in Job I have finally found THE brand for my amp with regard to my budget. I don't want to look any further, years of that was enough. I want to finish with that and enjoy the music. After I get Job, I'm sure there will still be countless appropriate speakers for it. I listen to all kinds of music, old school heavy metal and rock being played a bit more often than disco and orchestral music...
 
OK then, if its in your budget, I would say get the monos as that will give you more speaker options. More power is almost never a bad thing.
 
wisnon said:
OK then, if its in your budget, I would say get the monos as that will give you more speaker options. More power is almost never a bad thing.
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I'm sure you are right, BUT the room is only 19 square meters (even much less power is enough), and monos solution is much more expensive... so I'm interested in your (and others') opinion on sound QUALITY differences. Although I don't believe I'll go for monos, I wouldn't know how to justify that purchase, or even how to pay for it :)
 
Mate,

I have no doubt that the Job monos will be and are better than the stereo Job. I love the stereo Job and plan on getting the monos.
 
Mate said:
I'm sure you are right, BUT the room is only 19 square meters (even much less power is enough), and monos solution is much more expensive... so I'm interested in your (and others') opinion on sound QUALITY differences. Although I don't believe I'll go for monos, I wouldn't know how to justify that purchase, or even how to pay for it :)
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In my opinion: go for the Job monos. After a few weeks burning-in the sound quality is much much better (JOB 250 vs JOB 225).
 
Hi,

The 6 Moons review is now complete and:

"To conclude, over the Job 225, the 250 monos aren't just about "3dB more". They're about upping the game to the next level. This nets dividends already in scenarios which calmer heads would peg pure overkill - like my above desktop sandwich. It really affirms itself on speakers which respond to more power very noticeably. With the speed and phase linearity of a wide-bandwidth DC-coupled circuit to eliminate the fuzz pedal of capacitors and sport the low impedance which more challenging bass alignments thrive on, these are compact muscle amps on the sunny shadow-less side of the street. They pull off any wet blankets you might have unwittingly left draped over your speakers even if you never saw them before.

That Goldmund can offer such mature circuitry and keep building in Geneva/Switzerland whilst charging Rotel/NAD prices without defaulting to class D... that remains the ongoing surprise. It should be a bit of a thorn in the sides of competitors who pay attention. And it should be a very attractive proposition to smart shoppers who pay attention. Of course rather than doing that—pay attention—it's far easier to crow about the ever-escalating costs of high-end hifi and how it's all going nuts but isn't possible otherwise. You pick what you want to believe! For myself, I rather think that with the 250 monos, the Job experiment has finally blown that argument completely to smithereens..."

;)
 
Yup, pretty much what Joe and I have been saying for more than a year… and I have been maligned repeatedly for saying so. LoL
 
Can't wait to hear the monos. I KNOW they will be awesome.

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Yup, pretty much what Joe and I have been saying for more than a year… and I have been maligned repeatedly for saying so. LoL
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Hey Guy's, I have Been running a JOB 225 and JOB Pre2 since early august. I lucked out and bought the last new sealed 225 from Amazon .I bought the first JOB Pre2 to enter the US from Jaxwired over at the Audiocircle. I have run the amp and pre with both Silverline Audio Sonata III's and Audio Physic Tempo VI's. I have a Pair of Audio Physic Scorpio II's in route to me and I think that I might order a pair of JOB 250 mono's to take my rig to the next level.thanks, William
 
Hi William,

I'd love your opinion of the monos vs the stereo amp should you decide to buy them. I plan on getting them later on this year.
 
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