Anything as " fast" as SPECTRAL gear?

Yes the components I build. No caps in the signal path in my preamp. Caps cannot keep up.

Happy Listening.

Hi Al(marg). Your informed and considerate posts are "very" much appreciated. Your background provides a great platform for your insights. My Dad was a Civil Engineer so I appreciate how thorough and appropriate an Engineer can be on a topic of interest. (Dad was a woodworking craftsman and built the boat that so enhanced my youth). Your comments invite me to further research. On a non technical side, I've checked your system indicates stock power cords. Please don't be offended at my totally subjective suggestion that you at least try an MIT Oracle AC 3 (non-networked) power cord. In my Spectral based system these have proven to be extremely effective in all components,including digital,--batting much higher than their approx $600.00 cost via Joe Abrams,their online dealer/discounter for Audiogon. I hope you will sense increased speed and refinement :- )

Thanks, Ptss. I appreciate the nice words and the suggestion. And I've noted in the past your frequent advocacy of the importance of addressing power quality and power-related issues.

I'll keep your specific suggestion in mind, for a future time. Next on my list, though, as you've seen in the DEQX thread you initiated, is purchase of an HDP-5 in the next month or two :-)

Best regards,
-- Al

Hi Al(marg). Your informed and considerate posts are "very"
much appreciated. Your background provides a great platform for your
insights. My Dad was a Civil Engineer so I appreciate how thorough and
appropriate an Engineer can be on a topic of interest. (Dad was a
woodworking craftsman and built the boat that so enhanced my youth).
Your comments invite me to further research. On a non technical side, I've
checked your system indicates stock power cords. Please don't be
offended at my totally subjective suggestion that you at least try an MIT
Oracle AC 3 (non-networked) power cord. In my Spectral based system
these have proven to be extremely effective in all components,including
digital,--batting much higher than their approx $600.00 cost via Joe
Abrams,their online dealer/discounter for Audiogon. I hope you will sense
increased speed and refinement :- )

Al, as you and Ralph are obviously the two most technically knowledgeable, I think it most appropriate for the two of you to also define/describe amplifier 'speed' from a subjective/sonic perspective. As yet, no one has given a description of what a 'fast' amp sounds like in comparison to something unremarkable. This goes to the op in reference to it's effect on the music. I'd like to hear references beyond HF transient performance/attack and bottom end definition. Grooming is necessary in this hobby just because of it's inherent limitations. The moon is too far away.