This site is based on a scientific approach, when people have the guts to spend some words on sound quality, they are requested by some members to look somewhere else (fortunately not by AMIR) since this forum is not for subjectivist. Ok, i respect that and can even understand. But how come pages are spent on amp cases (Buckeye and Nilai) while nobody objects? The more so because Buckeye motivated the policy very clearly in a very civilised way.
Best regards,
Rob.
Cause like dude, there is not much to talk about in terms of measured performance. This Buckeye cat nailed it. And did so at a great value.
Not much interest in a discussion forum that is 2000 responses of: yeah, it’s effectively perfect in terms of measurement at a price unimaginable ten years ago. Amir would have to find another jobbie. We don’t want that to happen.
But if you want a theory here is one:
The Buckeye logo is bad-ass man. It’s like if 1970s Nakamichi logos got it on with the opening title of the film Alien.
It’s so cool however it makes the case seem ultra not cool in comparison.
Without the bad ass logo the Buckeye would have a whole “Normcore” thing going on. But the logo would need to be like, just the name printed in Rockwell typeface. Maybe you can keep the logo but it would need to be modified to evoke more of a Carhart or gas station attendant vibe, maybe making lines less elegantly thin. Chunk em up in a way that says you couldnt care less about how a jacket fits. Or how this amp looks. Cause dude, the current logo is way too elegant and sophisticated to pull normcore off.
To keep our analogy going, the case is like the JVC logo. I mean it’s not offensive like some Crown blingy shapey cut out nightmare or in my opinion, some recent giant McIntosh logo lit up in Halloween green like a fast and furious hot hatch. But it’s just sorta there.
Come to think of it: DUDE, the answer is to own that awesome logo and print it across the entire face of that bad boy. Embossed by cnc machine on a thick slab of anodized. Something that says business like a cattleman’s belt buckle. Sorta
Sorta like Bryston newer amps try and utterly fail to do. their logo is not cool: it’s just their name and in some typeface that never got over shrooms or came off a Yes album cover. They were better off keeping it purely industrial: “it’s a Bryston. You can throw it into a truck 1000 times and it will still work. Nothing to see here.”
Or if your not into the whole tasteful thing, etch it into clear acrylic (painted black on the backside, the size of the entire front and light it from the edge so only the etched part glows. You could use Halloween green or Easter blue I guess. Or like the user to select whatever RGB monstrosity they like.
The latter could be the Buckeye Gamer edition. You could charge twice the price for the same thing but with rgb.
Look man, I totally would get a buckeye rather than some overpriced NAD that likely has worse capacitors and whathaveyous.
