Eddie
12-26-2007, 12:59 PM
Just treated myself to a little bit of heaven. Wow! In a 25' x 25' room, with a raised ceiling...no lack of power! Well ok, I'm not using wall-rattling levels, but more than respectable, guesstimate 75-80db with the volume at about twelve o'clock.
Huge soundstage, drop-dead imaging, surprisingly adequate bass (the speakers are about 1.5' from the back wall). The clarity and midrange that I remembered from my old 340 Classics that I used to run with first NAD separates and then a digital Panny.
Don't think I'll ever go back to a full-sized amp again, digital or not. This little $140 cigarette-pack sized box is stunning. Has a certain lushness and musicality that the other two did not, somehow. Jazz and female vocals are especially stunning. And that's just me using a cheap Panasonic DVD recorder's DAC...am eager to hear the improvement that a Marantz or Oppo player will provide.
God bless cheap new technology, even if it's made in big bad high-polluting, Tibet-stealing, dissident-killing China! :D
If anyone here is considering a low-budget 2-channel music system, this might be the one to beat.
Huge soundstage, drop-dead imaging, surprisingly adequate bass (the speakers are about 1.5' from the back wall). The clarity and midrange that I remembered from my old 340 Classics that I used to run with first NAD separates and then a digital Panny.
Don't think I'll ever go back to a full-sized amp again, digital or not. This little $140 cigarette-pack sized box is stunning. Has a certain lushness and musicality that the other two did not, somehow. Jazz and female vocals are especially stunning. And that's just me using a cheap Panasonic DVD recorder's DAC...am eager to hear the improvement that a Marantz or Oppo player will provide.
God bless cheap new technology, even if it's made in big bad high-polluting, Tibet-stealing, dissident-killing China! :D
If anyone here is considering a low-budget 2-channel music system, this might be the one to beat.