Faster alternative to the ASR Emitter?

I don't own an ASR and I have no experience with Burson opamps.

What I do have direct experience with is:

- I generally have preferred discrete output stages to opamps. So if I were game for rolling opamps, I would certainly consider what Burson, Dexa and Audio GD call "discrete opamps".

- I have indeed swapped opamps before and it's sort of a YMMV thing. But a number of various opamps are available for $20, $50, $100. And in a hobby where a cotton covered cable costs $1000, and people shell out hundreds for a power cord, I think opamp rolling is one tweak which is quite high value by comparison.

Wilsynet, I agree. I will try it when the time is right and the dust settles in my system. I am also tempted to try the silver WBT RCAs and SW posts as Friedrich and others claim they have quite an impact as well.

Wilsynet, I do not understand your aggressive post. Any gripes ?
I did not write that I am a compulsive tweaker. I did only ONE tweak to the ASR amp, listened to it for several weeks and found it worthwhile.

The ground wire is required by the op-amp to reference the positive input to ground...OK, now I remember it. Satisfied ?

I will not discuss matters of taste. I like the Burson op-amp better than the one that comes installed by the factory.

BTW this tweak is not open-heart surgery, my ASR amp came with op-amp sockets, so it is just a matter of unplugging the old op-amps, plugging the new ones and adding a ground wire, if one chooses a Burson op-amp.
Take it easy

I have one emitter II of 2006 and he have the new golden board and I allways think that the sound of ASR is a litle bit dark but now I want to try other rca cable to solve that problema. I have cardas Golden cross for speakers and a few days ago I switch for direct input and the sound gets better. I intend to change rca for a better one up to $400 in used market.

Bras:
The Emitter 2 exclusive ( or any of the Asr units), is not dark in the sound at all. They are drop dead linear, and doesnt add anything, it simply shows what is there in the system..You probably have a cable, power line or something else which colors the sound so you feels its dark. The pricier the gear, the more it reveals your weak spots or links in the system, and asr shows no mercy when it comes to this sort of revealing:)