anyone coming to your house and looking closely at the VU meters
Why would I want to buy a nice amp for others to look at? I will need to look at it.
anyone coming to your house and looking closely at the VU meters
Do you want to be stuck with a broken amp and fighting to get your money back? If not, pick one of the many other amps in this price rangeWell. Finally, I'm not sure if there are so many defective products over all the sales. Some people complain about it, they should be taken into consideration, but is it a sufficient obstacle...
Do you want to be stuck with a broken amp and fighting to get your money back? If not, pick one of the many other amps in this price range
I would love to but there are no other AB amps in the price range with similar specs.
Because no D class have the same level of musicalityWhy do you need an AB amp?
Because no D class have the same level of musicality
You’ll still get a though…
Because no D class have the same level of musicality
What? ... there's no musicality in an amplifier ... there's an amplified signal and nothing more.
You need to search for source / preamp EQ you like, but the amplifier only amplify that signal.
That's what I do. I use an Adi 2 Pro to apply filters on my R2R Gustard R26 dac. And use an S17 Pro as preamp.
The LA90 D in my config has a special ingredient that brings a bit of magic the other D class don't do during blind tests. They work good, the difference isn't massive. I have done lots of tests on headphones and absolutely no D class can compete with the level of A class and here yes, I can tell you that there is something about musicality. For example, my Aune S17 Pro is not as technical as the different D class I've tried, but it makes my Meze Elite sing as no other can do. And yes I've been using EQ for 15 years now and tried a lot of stuff. Even if subjective feelings are not the words to use in ASR, I think that blind tests are a scientific method which are as trustable as numbers on papers. If you don't combine both objective and subjective parts I think you're disconnected of the process : enjoying music is about feelings.
But I agree that I want my amp to be neutral. What years shown me is that even transparent amps have differences. How do you explain that I dissociate an Ahb2 and an LA90 when blindtest listening ? That I can tell you when the Benchmark is playing because I find the mids colder and recessed compared to LA90 so that they both have a dead flat frequency response ?
Some kind of experimental error we can’t figure from afar ?That's what I do. I use an Adi 2 Pro to apply filters on my R2R Gustard R26 dac. And use an S17 Pro as preamp.
The LA90 D in my config has a special ingredient that brings a bit of magic the other D class don't do during blind tests. They work good, the difference isn't massive. I have done lots of tests on headphones and absolutely no D class can compete with the level of A class and here yes, I can tell you that there is something about musicality. For example, my Aune S17 Pro is not as technical as the different D class I've tried, but it makes my Meze Elite sing as no other can do. And yes I've been using EQ for 15 years now and tried a lot of stuff. Even if subjective feelings are not the words to use in ASR, I think that blind tests are a scientific method which are as trustable as numbers on papers. If you don't combine both objective and subjective parts I think you're disconnected of the process : enjoying music is about feelings.
But I agree that I want my amp to be neutral. What years shown me is that even transparent amps have differences. How do you explain that I dissociate an Ahb2 and an LA90 when blindtest listening ? That I can tell you when the Benchmark is playing because I find the mids colder and recessed compared to LA90 so that they both have a dead flat frequency response ?
blind test with the same gain for the amplifiers?
Some kind of experimental error we can’t figure from afar ?
The likelihood of you being rigth is very slim compared to that something went wrong ? We can’t possibly solves this in a tread here ?
Good,luck with the amps anyway as none of these is bad choice , provided it can handle the load and levels you want