A fat mid-range and warm liquid tone ?

[James Wolf]

As a recovering audiophile, your description below brings back memories of
things I have heard tubes do that *almost* no solid state amp I have heard
does.  There is only one exception and that was a pair of mono-amps that, if
I recall, were Swedish made running pure class A.  At the time, they would
have cost me about ½ of a year’s salary.  In the same system, I heard the
difference between a top end turntable/cartridge and a very good CD player.
The CD player collapsed the sound stage and dynamic range, both were playing
the same source material from Phantom of the Opera.  Speakers were B&W
801’s.  I don’t recall the preamp, but it was a hybrid SS/tube.

 

Jim, KR9U 

 

From: tacos-bounces+jbwolf=comcast.net at amrad.org
[mailto:tacos-bounces+jbwolf=comcast.net at amrad.org] On Behalf Of Joseph
Bento
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:49 AM
To: andre kesteloot; Tacos AMRAD
Subject: Re: A fat mid-range and warm liquid tone ?

 

"Notably relaxed and highly detailed"; 

"individual sonic events emerge from the quietest, blackest background
and
then materialize with all of the very finest detail and most minute spatial
cues intact -- and in lifelike relation to each other"; 

"just sound more clear and intelligible"; 

"bass, in particular, is very deep, very powerful, taut, and has terrific
dynamic shading."


On Sep 26, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Andre Kesteloot wrote:




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