Merrill Audio ELEMENT 118 on Tour

Probably Merrill was just stating the factory spec for the NC1200 module whereas he is actually measuring? his 116......A lot of "factory specs" never are realized in real life.  Maybe Merrill will chime in here.   These specs mean very little in terms of listening.  You could have a no oversampling DAC with pretty bad signal to noise ratio that sounds way more transparent than some DAC with tons of filtering (digital and analog).  We know the 116 is better than Veritas (verified by many).  But is it better than the $5000 mono Van Alstine amps that clobbered the Veritas?  How about the Cherry Megachino II amps?  How about the Nuprime biggies, the NC1200 amps from Nord, my $2500 dual mono tweaked to the max IceEdge amps?......not to mention tons of other class A and A/B amps (transistor and tube).

In the above review what amps do width, depth and decay better?  He only rated the 116 4 or 4.5 notes on these categories.  Another fine review telling us nothing.

Wouldn't you love it if some reviewer got the "reputed best" 20 amps under $25,000 and tested them all at the same time.  Burning them all in for a month.  Testing them on different feet and with different power cords and on several systems.  Then we will know something.  We know nothing!!!!!!  High end audio is just a bunch of illusions.....he he.  Buy whatever makes you happy, just don't compare it to anything else.....you might not like what you paid big bucks for. 

Become however together with You, in front of a special challenge – that a company known for still of high quality, expensive amplifiers produced amp cost more, model RPA-MG1000 – this is one of the most expensive amplifiers on the market. It cost 60 000 euros device regular power amplifier, but in practice is an integral amplifier. We'll come back to that.

Importantly, besides the price, is that the amplifiers are SPECIAL working in class D. In the materials that I received in may 2013 during the exhibition the High End, it's the first time I met with the owners of Shirokazu Yazaki you and Tsutomu Banno – present chief engineer of the company – we find an eloquent picture, which shows the progres from tube amplifiers, known as "generation" 1.", through classic amps of the semiconductor, i.e. "generation 2.", to the new amplifiers in class D, which is 3. generation of amplifiers in General.

And we are not talking at all about what the Lord Yazaki-San and Banno-San does not like lamps, all exactly the opposite-they are the experts on lamps develop wonderful amplifiers of this type. It is just that I see the benefits that new technology brings. So they can be used for making any of this made sense to approach the project the right way and choose the right methods. For them, the key to achieving top-end sound from semiconductors is their work in class D.

In the tested amplifier was both types of capacitors. And this is because the SPEC gives the user a choice of sound character. For the first time this possibility was introduced in przedwzmacniaczu gramofonowym REQ-S1EX in 2013, but here taken to extremes. On a separate Board, after the filter in the output, we have two groups of capacitors and resistors. One of them is called "musicality", and the second "neutrality". This is not EQ color because it does not change the sensitivity characteristics (measurement frequency characteristics for both systems are identical) and changed the layoutthe character of the sound. Between these two modes selectable with a small switch on the rear panel.If for a moment to discard prejudices – because of bad amplifiers in class D is a lot – and we will focus on the basics, it may be easier to understand what it's wrote in the part dedicated to odsłuchom.