Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing

@pstores 

You should continue to post your thoughts and listening impressions as you experience them. This is an open audio topic forum and most folks come here to learn, share and discover. When you come across an excellent sounding product, you want to make others aware. Nothing wrong with that.

I have certainly done the same over the years on this forum. A few examples, Coincident components/speakers, Ocelia cables and Lavricables, Pro-Ject RS2T CD transport etc. I want to share these wonderful discoveries/experiences with fellow music lovers looking for terrific audio products. Audiogon is a great resource.

Charles

Exactly Charles.  I read these threads to find out what people think about how something sounds.  Yes that persons opinion. I could care less about what they look like on paper.  I can close my eyes and tell you what something sounds like.  Try telling me what they look like on paper with your eyes closed.

Pstores please keep the impressions and comparisons coming.

@pstores please keep posting as these amplifiers come into their own. Ignore the naysayers and measurement nuts. 

I can close my eyes and tell you what something sounds like. Try telling me what they look like on paper with your eyes closed.

I am not sure that is universal.
Both my old and new preamps have very similar harmonic structure, and they have a similar (lack of bad) sound… and the graphs on the reviews look exactly like what Ralph describes.
So just because you cannot hear it looking at the graph, doesn’t mean that Ralph and others can’t.

One negative thing about the ASR testing, is that they only focus on SINAD, and I find a hissing amp to be pretty distressing, and would take some harmonic distortion over hissing. And then there is no weighting, like a discount for 2nd and 3rd harmonic, compared to all/any spray to the right… but the Audio Precision test equipment just kicks out a signal number.

So I do not think that it is out of the question for Kurbio to ask for objective proof. Ralph has been talking about the distribution of the harmonics for a while, so to see it would be dandy way to objectively show some of what makes them sound good..

I can close my eyes and tell you what something sounds like. Try telling me what they look like on paper with your eyes closed.

I am not sure that is universal.

@holmz Nobody here is saying anyone’s opinion/tastes are universal, but they’re indicative of what one might expect in terms of a product’s sound signature. If any of us have learned anything in this hobby it’s that there is no “universal” truth in music reproduction. But that doesn’t mean one can’t get an INDICATION of what someone might expect out of a component. Case in point, if someone says something sounds warm with somewhat recessed highs that will go a long way to helping someone who may be looking for a highly detailed and more neutral-sounding component. Universal truths are pretty much a myth in this hobby given the myriad of variables involved, not the least of which is each person’s individual preferences and how they hear things. Just my take/experience FWIW.