What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'?

Fun thread.

Musical is when everything! congeals.

And systems tend to be like paintings, in a sense. If you think about it, the painting is the artist’s interpretation of their own reality. And their expression is the way they’re presenting that! reality.

Lots of elements are involved IN the interpretation, the making of it. The same way our systems create the sound we perceive in our brains. The Musicality.

I guess you sort of have to have an artist’s mind to view it this way. Probably also helps if you smoke a lil weed. : )

@mahgister would love to hear your perspective on this.

@zlone You should do some reading about Lyngdorf’s approach. Their integrated offerings is sort of a big brother, little brother situation, whichever one you can afford. It’s literally the same level of both performance and sound, one with considerably more power than the other, and also flexibility in how you can use it b/c you can add on modules if you like. I actually have the first generation, which I would say is the middle child b/c it has the adaptability of the additional modules, and also a lil more power than the little guy.

All of the reviews I read said that the little guy is completely competent and that it’s sort of an identical sound ... the bigger more expensive model literally just has more power and adaptability. They are both very musical.

The Room Perfect software is what makes the magic happen. I recommend you check it out, in your search.

@dman777 , you're 100% correct.  AS3200 is very tube sounding. And a amp I'll be enjoying for a while.  When you listen to the Luxman 590II vs AS3200 they are completely different.  Luxman has the detail, refiness and precision that a class A is known for.  The speaker matching is very important.  I've never own McIntosh gear so I cant say much of their characteristics.  I know people aren't fans of Yamaha gear on Agon, but when you look at their company history, technology and musical instruments.  Yamaha knows what they are making and selling.  I'm a character of less is better and amps that are 100w fall in my category.  For me its always music first, but man, equipment that looks nice just makes it so much satisfying to own and hear.

Thanks for your interest but i posted already many post about musicality in this thread ...😁

And yes it help to be an artist ... As medecine based on science is an art , acoustics based on pure science may be also an art ...

And even listening is an art ...

Only  transhumanist could think that replacing the human part of science which is art by an artefact could dream about the replacement of all artists by machine and anyway the end of mankind for a meaningless nightmare ... but i am out of the matter as often ... I apologize ...

My best to you ...😊

@mahgister would love to hear your perspective on this.

@tunefuldude You should do some reading about Lyngdorf’s approach. 

Thanks, I will take a look. Sort of set on keeping my Coda power amp though, I am quite taken by it.