Well over three years after this thread began, my 2 cents. First, UHF Magazine has a review of the Récital and so does 6Moons. I heard it a couple of days ago in an extended listen. As it was for Psc, above, the music stayed in my head for days afterwards. Downside, I was not especially into listening to my own system during that time, much as it has improved recently. The Audiomat system I heard (with a CEC transport and the Audiomat Maestro DAC) provided musical heart and soul enough to nourish me for a while.
Now I am looking for my own copies of all the new music I heard that day, convinced that they are extraordinary recordings... but there is a real possibility that they may turn out to be no better than many I already have and know well, and that the real difference was the Audiomat gear.
So I think the Récital is a very impressive amp indeed, as good as any I've ever heard and just maybe the best. Not that it makes all recordings sound good. With some discs I was quite aware of the limits of the recording setup, with another one it was the limits of the performance. The unusual thing about this listening setup, though, was that in every case (except for the one bad one) it was precisely the performance that mattered the most, and it swept me up and occupied my attention entirely.
