After having to cut short my previous entry concerning the Yaqin amp I would like to describe a little about how this amplifier sounds. I've read many manufacturers statements that after you purchase their equipment you will rediscover your CD collection. Mostly hokum. But I must admit that after listening to some of my old CD's on the Arcam player feeding the Yaqin tube amp, I truly have rediscovered many of my CD's. Vacuum tubes seem to do things to a digital sound source something pure solid state cannot. There's a depth to the music and warmth. And clarity of the presentation with involvement in the music without fatique. Perhaps an example would be an acoustic guitar. Not only the initial sound of the strings being strummed but the sound the strings make as each ones vibration diminishes. The sound of the guitars body seems to be an almost seperate instrument from the strings yet together they form an almost perfect sound. This type of rendering applies not only to the guitar but to most instruments in the recording. Drums are equally realistic with their resonance and subtle detail filling the listening area. Vocals seem to have emotion that I've never heard before, although so many of my CD's I have have listened to countless times. On some recordings it almost seems you can hear, or perhaps even feel the mood or emotion in the studio, or on stage, the musicians feel as they begin their song and when they finish it. I've listened to stereo systems costing 15 times as much as my Yaqin/Arcam combination and often not all those high priced system, although wonderful, could convey such emotion at a normal listening level.
Although I've done my best to describe what I hear with the Yaqin tube amp. I'm sure everyone who listens to a system such as this will have a different way to describe it. But I think most will agree the Yaqin MC10L is a very listenable amplifier.
Although I've done my best to describe what I hear with the Yaqin tube amp. I'm sure everyone who listens to a system such as this will have a different way to describe it. But I think most will agree the Yaqin MC10L is a very listenable amplifier.