New 110th Anniversary Denon products with "ULTRA AL32"

[restorer-john]

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Very Nice!

 

[GXAlan]

Beautiful amp, please update us with your impressions!

 

[BDWoody]

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Most excellent.
Congrats!

 

[VintageFlanker]

Sorry for the crappy pictures, BTW. My Xiaomi Mi9T sucks at shooting under low light conditions. I'm waiting for my new Pixel 5 once it will be back in stock.

 

[restorer-john]

Sorry for the crappy pictures, BTW. My Xiaomi Mi9T sucks at shooting under low light conditions.

Don't apologize for spending money on beautiful, quality HiFi instead of a silly phone.

One is a consumer durable, the other is non-durable/disposable. One you will still be using in a decade and the other will be languishing dead in a drawer or buried in landfill.

Now go get a proper camera and take some pictures for us!

 

[Mr.XO]

@VintageFlanker - Hey, Congrats on the awesome unit! Real drool worthy stuff...
How are you finding it?
Would be great if you can share some first impressions, etc.
Thanks!

 

[VintageFlanker]

How are you finding it?

Not that great, I'm afraid (me being me).

 

[daftcombo]

Not that great, I'm afraid (me being me).

Hard to beat an Apollon AS1200 though.

 

[Panelhead]

Not that great, I'm afraid (me being me).

That is disappointing. Hoped it was a giant slayer.

 

[Theriverlethe]

Something that used machine learning and was fed a ton of music to understand the correct dynamic range of any instrument playing so that it could undo the destruction of generations of art carried out by studio engineers and labels would be good. Could also be used to reduce noise in an automated way (like MQA claims to do with some remasters when the original was made on a machine that had a known issue.)

I'd pay quite a bit for that.

Don’t be silly. That would actually provide a discernible difference. It would also probably require a real GPU or something like a Tegra.

 

[Mr.XO]

Not that great, I'm afraid (me being me).

@VintageFlanker - didn't expect that. But Thanks for being open about it.
I've been debating btw this, the marantz model 30, and the yamaha as-1200/2200.
So far the yammy is winning... any thoughts?

@restorer-john - would be great if you can chip in as well.

Thanks!

 

[VintageFlanker]

That is disappointing. Hoped it was a giant slayer.

@VintageFlanker - didn't expect that. But Thanks for being open about it.
I've been debating btw this, the marantz model 30, and the yamaha as-1200/2200.
So far the yammy is winning... any thoughts?

Not necessarily. I will of course explain more expensively a bit later... It is obviously not a bad amp by any means, I just prefer my actual RME ADI-2 DAC/1200AS2 stack, that's about it.

 

[Mr.XO]

@VintageFlanker - Thanks!
Can't wait for the details... wish there was some place to audition some of this where I'm.

 

[GXAlan]

@VintageFlanker I'm going to assume that the non-defeatable Ultra AL32 will be an issue. We have confirmation that it's not marketing.

 

[VintageFlanker]

I've been debating btw this, the marantz model 30, and the yamaha as-1200/2200.

Model 30 is either more powerful and a better measuring amp than both.

 

[bassman]

More impressions.......

 

[Mr.XO]

Model 30 is either more powerful and a better measuring amp than both.

Thanks @VintageFlanker!
That's great to hear... as its the less expensive one of the 3.
So, has it been reviewed / measured here, or any good reviews with measurements, etc., out there to go by?
Have seen a couple YT video reviews but looking for more reliable sources.

 

[Mr.XO]

@VintageFlanker - found your comments in over at the Model 30 thread.
Guess the last time I visited that thread was before you posted it. Anyways, was a good find.
Now thanks to a friend I have added the Technics SU-G700 also to my list. It's funny how little info there's available on any of them, barring the yammy.

 

[ichonderoga]

Not that great, I'm afraid (me being me).

Man that's a bummer ... sending it back?

 

[maxp779]

Why don't any of the Denon amps have a pre-out? There's no way to attach a subwoofer to these things.