Imaging? Relaxed presentation? Bass juiciness? Best presentation of Nina Simone you ever heard?Yes, yes, yes and who??
When I have the right amp in the system, its a lot easier to convince my girlfriend to spend the evening spinning LPs...
What makes you build a system around an amplifier?
Yes, yes, yes and who?? Do you even listen to music? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone Best, E |
bdp24, I can't say what the "cause" was for the "grainy" sound. The factory rep was proudly describing the preamp/power amp combination driving those speakers. He did say that he thought the speakers were "unforgiving". I have found some DACs produce a somewhat "dry" sound, but IMO the speakers sounded "grainy" too reproducing vinyl as well as digital. |
Sean: Really good question! I’m afraid I don’t know of strong research in this area, so I can only guess that in some ways, a good amp does not ruin:
It may be something quite counter-intuitive, like for instance, rolling off the top octave. I don't know enough about imaging science, but I find the idea of Head Related Transfer Functions fascinating, and wonder how they apply to tube electronics. Hopefully some one will jump in and tell me where the state of the art research is! Best, E |