I'm blown away by the Sonic Impact tripath amp.

Amandarae,

Sorry if I ruffled your feathers, I am just so over people making sweeping generalizations where $$ issues in terms of kwality, are supposed to be a key factor. In what? "Ultimate" enjoyment? I think the phrase "up the ladder," understandably brought on my spate, as in, "here we go again. Unfortunately you got swept up. Good to see some grounding, pardon the pun! You're on my side.

Having said that, Vinnie's little creation makes a joke out of ALOT of what is out there.

Dmason,

I am with you. My previous post was not meant to alienate you, nor depend the choices I made for my amp. Quality commands price nowadays. But Vinnies amp is an exception! No hoopla, no "mine is an expensive model than yours, therefore better" BS, no "emperors clothes" thingy! Just the truth that the amp sounds great.

regards

twl,

The speakers I am using are some MB Quart QLSP44XL and a cheap Sony DVD Player of yesteryear. I bought the MB Quarts of of Ubid.com about four years ago for about $200 brand new. It's a strange speaker. I emailed MB Quart about them and they've never heard of them. They have all German writing. I opened up the back and looked at the drivers and crossover. I was amazed at what I saw, huge inductors and poly caps mounted on a shock padded board. The drivers are German with heavy magnets and quality baskets. They are MTM floorstanders and about 90db with a titanium tweeter.

The Sonic Impact sounded great with them. They go pretty darn loud and disappear. With the Vecteur I have to use a DAC to smooth out the highs on these speakers but the SI makes them fatigue free with gobbs of resolution. The bass...it just blows me away. I have an expensive push pull tube system upstairs and I would rather hear this cheapo basement setup any day.

Pete

Amandarae,

I don't think D was trying to offend you.
He's referring to your comment "As you move up on the ladder (I am referring to the Rowlands, ICE H2O, ARC, Channel Island, Hypex UcD, Bel Canto, eAR, Carver,etc.), the sonic performance will overwhelmingly surprise you".

His point was the ClariT is already up the ladder.With the proper speakers..spending more before hearing it ..might be a mistake. Relax
I think we are all together on this technology.
Glad to see welcome another audiophile to the dark side!

Slappy ..man your are a nut!!!LOL

Dmason, Amandarae
Good to see you are friends again, now you just need to seal the deal with a hug!