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In Reply to: RE: ? posted by Old SteveA on February 22, 2014 at 18:47:03
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
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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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