@chayro
thank you for your observations above. You bring very interesting points which are reasonable. That said, did you see what i did? yes, i was BRUTALLY honest about the Mephisto knowing it can impact my future when it is time for me to sell it. Yet, i did not care and i was as real as i possibly could. I have been brutally bashed and criticized HERE for being X and Y when it comes to selling equipment, but i just demonstrated once again with that video that i DO NOT CARE to tell the truth even about my own gear.
So now that i have gotten that out of the way, I consider the Mephisto the G.O.A.T. from all the power amps i have owned. That said, you are buying a V12 engine with twin turbos so now what are you going to do? are you going to put it inside your Oldsmobile Cutlass and expect the stock transmission, tires and suspension to hold up? no right?
That is essentially what you have done by buying something like the Mephisto. I believe that i can still improve it (slowly) even though right now it is sounding incredible (as you heard on the first teaser video i did) so i have already found synergy. It was not hard to achieve it and it was just common sense: Buy the matching preamp and try their cables.
The truth is when you get to a certain point with this hobby, it is often times better to stick to matching amp/preamp FIRST. I will try more preamps with the Mephisto and other things to evaluate the performance of the component.
I go back to Nordost Odin 1: It is a tested and an excellent cable with a long track record for being one of the best cables out there, BUT the Mephisto brought a magnifying glass with it and it exposed the strength and weaknesses of the Odin 1 cables (brightness being a weakness at times). It is no surprise that Nordost Odin cables can be bright especially when not configured correctly and with the right supporting cast. However, the resolution is insane as well as the clarity so people who own Nordost can validate when i am saying here. Yes it gives you beautiful clarity, liquidity, speed, resolution, BUT nobody will lie to you and tell you it does not get bright (unless of course you listen at low volumes then it is hard to make something sound bright).
I actually had someone PM ME asking me what i thought of Audioquest Dragon because he was getting "bite" from his Nordost set up.
Anyhow, the point i am trying to make is that with the Mephisto these things are more "enhanced" and under the microscope to the point that they are unbearable. It is by no means the Mephisto’s fault because all it is doing is giving you "hearing aids" so you can pick up everything in more of an accentuated fashion.
The best attribute of this amp is that it makes it EASY to tell you what happened to the sound when you add or remove something. i don’t need to spend weeks to figure out the difference between one cable or the other.
Stay tuned for Teaser #2 today. You will get to hear more of it and the best part is that you WILL hear subpar performances sound subpar even though in some systems they might sound better which i can also achieve by bringing the constellations, the luxmans of the world back into the room, but i have already done that so i am not really exploring those options going forward.
Once again, thank you for your observations above.
Jay
thank you for your observations above. You bring very interesting points which are reasonable. That said, did you see what i did? yes, i was BRUTALLY honest about the Mephisto knowing it can impact my future when it is time for me to sell it. Yet, i did not care and i was as real as i possibly could. I have been brutally bashed and criticized HERE for being X and Y when it comes to selling equipment, but i just demonstrated once again with that video that i DO NOT CARE to tell the truth even about my own gear.
So now that i have gotten that out of the way, I consider the Mephisto the G.O.A.T. from all the power amps i have owned. That said, you are buying a V12 engine with twin turbos so now what are you going to do? are you going to put it inside your Oldsmobile Cutlass and expect the stock transmission, tires and suspension to hold up? no right?
That is essentially what you have done by buying something like the Mephisto. I believe that i can still improve it (slowly) even though right now it is sounding incredible (as you heard on the first teaser video i did) so i have already found synergy. It was not hard to achieve it and it was just common sense: Buy the matching preamp and try their cables.
The truth is when you get to a certain point with this hobby, it is often times better to stick to matching amp/preamp FIRST. I will try more preamps with the Mephisto and other things to evaluate the performance of the component.
I go back to Nordost Odin 1: It is a tested and an excellent cable with a long track record for being one of the best cables out there, BUT the Mephisto brought a magnifying glass with it and it exposed the strength and weaknesses of the Odin 1 cables (brightness being a weakness at times). It is no surprise that Nordost Odin cables can be bright especially when not configured correctly and with the right supporting cast. However, the resolution is insane as well as the clarity so people who own Nordost can validate when i am saying here. Yes it gives you beautiful clarity, liquidity, speed, resolution, BUT nobody will lie to you and tell you it does not get bright (unless of course you listen at low volumes then it is hard to make something sound bright).
I actually had someone PM ME asking me what i thought of Audioquest Dragon because he was getting "bite" from his Nordost set up.
Anyhow, the point i am trying to make is that with the Mephisto these things are more "enhanced" and under the microscope to the point that they are unbearable. It is by no means the Mephisto’s fault because all it is doing is giving you "hearing aids" so you can pick up everything in more of an accentuated fashion.
The best attribute of this amp is that it makes it EASY to tell you what happened to the sound when you add or remove something. i don’t need to spend weeks to figure out the difference between one cable or the other.
Stay tuned for Teaser #2 today. You will get to hear more of it and the best part is that you WILL hear subpar performances sound subpar even though in some systems they might sound better which i can also achieve by bringing the constellations, the luxmans of the world back into the room, but i have already done that so i am not really exploring those options going forward.
Once again, thank you for your observations above.
Jay