Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp?


The new versions are called X-10s and the amp is on its third version or Mark III. This truly provides holograph imagine unlike anything I've heard before. On symphonic orchestras, one can hear the first violins. I have never heard an amp sound this precise.

In reality, I doubt if any amplifier can rival it. I certainly have never heard any that do so. Every album is so involving.

The preamp has yet to get a remote but is nevertheless, quite striking.
tbg
mapman

Any publicity may be good publicity compared to none. But one would expect spreading misinformation to backfire eventually.
Some manufacturers sell the sizzle not the steak. If you have the real deal - you don't have to lie about it.

It is self evident.
Very true.  

But out then again how to account for all the marketers in the world?   

You gotta get the word out.  

Its just  if you use a public forum to do it anything is fair game.  No news really there.   its the price you pay for free advertising.  


Tbg wrote,

"So vibrations being drained seem to be important to sound also."

nobody ever said they weren’t. You have to isolate and dissipate. You can also damp. I wrote about the importance of damping the top plate of isolation devices twenty years ago.  Gee, how time flies. And that's also why my iso platforms came with integrated vibration dissipation for the top plate. Plus constrained layer damping of transformers and CD transport compartments not to mention capacitors is pretty much de riguer these days. In terms of distortion you never know what you got til you lose it. Or put another way, you get used to whatever level of distortion you’ve got. As I mentioned somewhere along the line on one of these threads there are many causes of distortion, some of which are those things that go bump in the night. You know what I'm talking about.

Tbg also wrote,

"I have been able to greatly improve the sound of Roger’s amp..."

Ouch! That’s gotta hurt.

g. kait
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After you took the time to learn the technique of direct mechanical coupling of transformers, caps, circuit boards and output devices you would then hear a huuuuge benefit versus the same components when damped or constrained. (Terribly depressing words they are)..  I quit the damp thing twenty years ago. And for isolation it never can be achieved. If there were no matter/existence ..well then you have isolation.

Why would you want to constrain or damp the required tools to reproduce your music when you don't need to?  Tom