Subtlety ? do any American amps do it?


Not heard that many but it strikes me that everything from the colonies sounds a bit stark and bleached. Spent a year trying to come to terms with a Pass Labs which is vastly overated ( and I mean vastly), listened a lot
to Mark Levinson and thought Thank God I did not spend a fortune on that - clean, clear, hifi and so bereft of soul that it was like a visit to the Dentist !
I'm not that biased, it's taken Naim years to make something resembling music - PRAT ? until recently bunch of narrow minded PRATS.I know lots of Naim fans and their mindset belongs to the third reich !
UK companies like Meridian and Musical Fidelity have managed to do the bizz for at least 30 years that I've known/used and they still manage to make a noise that at least resembles real music. MF get tarred with a do it cheap brush but anyone who has heard their gear and says it's crap is probably a dealer who wants to sell you something at 3/4x the price.
The Brazilians do it a treat - Heard Audiopax 88s at the last Edinburgh show and if anyone there had ears, they should have packed up and went home - different league does not describe it.
Realise this is antagonistic but want some input.
Even the UK press seems blinkered to the crap - Pass, Krell
- whoah, nice hifi, shame there's nothing remotely musical involved, apart from the laughter as they take our hard earned money !

I have a Quicksilver phonostage - lovely and a great customer focused company, had a Lancelot Camelot, super and amazingly friendly & helpful people but go to the Big boys and it's just a money grabbing frenzy ?
I dreamed of a Pass Labs for years and ? my next amp will be coming from somewhere in Europe !

Si
simon74
I owned a TR6 (motorcycle)in '69. (single carb.650)Yup, never failed to mark its spot;even when brand new. And on to its electrical--designed by Lucas;--the prince of darkness, was the proper term to describe---.
While we're bashing the british cars I would point out that many US built cars of the same era being described were similar turkeys.

While living in the UK I ran a mini for 100,000 miles with no problems at all. I moved to the US and bought a Grand Am and the intake manifold gasket has failed twice in 70,000 miles. Do a web search on GM V6 lemons.

If the US car market were not much larger than that of the UK I predict some of the US "big three" would have gone the same way as British Leyland.

People who live in glass houses .......
Please forgive me for saying so,but your post sounds polemic. I'm not calling you polemic,but that's how your post sounds to me.

As technology makes the world smaller,as companies may be chartered in one county,design in another,and manufacture in yet another,I wonder if assigning nationalistic qualities to pieces of equipment is a marketing ploy?

I hope you fine something subtle,that appeals to you,but urge you to listen with your ears and not with your atlas.