i’ll never tell. it was a personal decision unrelated to audio.
new D’Agostino progression impressions
- A brief(I hope) overview of the new Progression Integrated amp.
- I’ve had mine for about a week and am extremely pleased with this amp being the core of my system. The sound quality is outstanding by any standard but not the usual solid state presentation, particularly in the midrange. Vocals are produced in a manner similar to vacuum tubes. Voices are a little larger in scale than most really good solid state amps that I’ve owned. Not better or worse but different. The amp is warm and exceedingly smooth while retaining great detail and separation of instruments. It’s perfectly suited to a neutral to bright loudspeaker and is very powerful as one would expect from D’Agostino. I’m not good at audiophile verbiage for describing sound quality in great detail. I simply judge on the hard to define ‘musicality’ of a component. It’s a highly musical amp with no audiophile deficiencies that I can detect. For comparison I’m embarrassed to say that I previously had the top Luxman combo which was awesome as well. In my home the Luxman duo leaned a bit to the brighter side of neutral which I enjoyed. The D’Agostino is certainly equivalent in sound and build quality but much fuller in presentation. Not necessarily better but just different. I love the way the final design looks and functions. I was hurting a bit to part with Luxman units but not anymore. Almost forgot, the customer service is non paralleled in my experience with Dan highly involved with customer service. He’s a gem.
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