Opinions about Daniel Hertz
Have anyone heard Daniel Hertz’s Maria intergrated amps with Eva or Amber speakers? Stephen Huff gave them one of the best reviews ever but is it all marketing and hype? Mark Levinson claims to solve the problems of digital reproduction with his master class software which can turn any digital recording into original master tape quality.
But ML had a questionable past such as rebranding Chinese products as his own and marking up the price. Others said he can’t design anything but hires good talent while he works on marketing. His series of business ventures and contentious business relationships would give one pause, but I only care about the sound. What do others think? Did he in fact made a revolutionary breakthrough in digital playback. Or is it all hype? Bottom line is how do his systems sound?
Red Rose was mostly a re-branding of "Audio Prism", made in the USA (by friends of mine noted in the below article from 1999). those USA products were definitely not in that mechanical ’etched’ sounding category. https://www.stereophile.com/news/10627/index.html later they did add some Chinese sourced products (which i’ve not heard so cannot comment). |
Love the m7 speakers which I still own and intend to keep for long time, didn’t love the Maria amp I was given to audition with it. Didn’t hold a candle to my Absolare integrated, sounded like generic class d, bleached of color and texture. Maybe that was because the user is forced to use bare wire speaker cables with the Maria amps, but probably not. Can’t speak to the amber speaker… never heard it. |
