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In Reply to: RE: ? posted by Old SteveA on February 22, 2014 at 18:08:36
One more thing ."The amp was,so,transparent,sounding you could'nt see it" is'nt just a little
funny.? ( These are the sayings we all use to poke fun at ourselves)
This is the kind of garbage you can imagine an ill prepared Hi End Audio salesperson
saying .
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Old Steve
I apologize, I did not pick up on the sarcasm. not one of my stronger points. I reread your post and get the humor aspect.
I was all caught up in the emotion with this little amp, I really LOVE this thing,
It has been a great while since any component affected me this way
Joe,
Glad that we're on the same page. (Attempts at humor are at best "hit or miss" on the
"Information Super Hwy"; You'd "a thunk" I'd know by now")
So, it was an EL84 based amp ,huh ? I had a Opera Consonance tube headphone amp
that I believed used EL84s , I liked it . I'm currently "waffling" between 2 HP amps that
have, a Fosgate Signature (tube) & a Burson Soloist(SS). Both of these amps do the "Dead
Silent" parameter w/ the phones I use with them.(Senn HD800 & Hifiman HE-6)
I'm currently leaning toward the Burson as it seems to have a bit more coherence through
entire frequence from bottom all the way through to the top. I listen to only acoustic
based music (orchestral,chamber,some jazz & some singer/songwriter , non studio based
recordings. I don't know if the Burson (or any SS) could sound this good without an extremely clean supply of power feeding all sources up to & through the amp. It's my
belief that my Equi=Tech 1.5Q BPT may be responsible for 70% of SQ I'm able to get from
music system at any given time..
It has not been my experience that the Inefficient HE-6s have been that hard to drive on either the Burson or Fosgate amps. Maybe it has something to do with whether you are listening to wide dynamics uncompressed music on a regular basis. I don't know .
Besides thinking that most "popular" music just is'nt that interesting, the general "production"
values are quite below what I think would sound barely acceptable. (Or is it because the production values are so low it's not that interesting ?)
I still can't decide which I find less useful , music award programs or movie critic reviews (He says after bending people's ears about his opinions about equipment) (At least I can't see
who's laughing at me)
My current situation does not allow for much in audio, I initially was not impressed with headphones (coming from horn and SET tube systems costing over $25,000.00) Sound stage was a huge priority for me along with clarity, detail, slight warm sound, etc...
Upon trying this amp in conjunction with phones, I am a convert. Other amps allowed me to hear into the music with phones but none quite as well as this little gem.
Another advantage to headphones is I can keep more gear around, where open air systems I could not afford to
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