17-Mar-2017, 19:52
I have had several valve amps, and still have. They sound lovely but valve power amps are almost all technically weak at the frequency extremes. Valve preamps are fabulous but even spending a vast amount of money on the transformers valve power amps are coloured. It is euphonic, sometimes very much so, and very nice, but transparent to source? Not IME.
I still have yet to find an amp to match Devialet for transparency, but I do still haul out and enjoy my valve amp from time to time - I'd probably do it more if it wasn't so heavy.
I used to have huge, expensive and heavy separates over the last 30 years but am very content with the Devialet solution, 5 boxes weighing well over 100kg replaced by 2 smaller lighter ones that sound just as good and cost much less
I still have yet to find an amp to match Devialet for transparency, but I do still haul out and enjoy my valve amp from time to time - I'd probably do it more if it wasn't so heavy.
I used to have huge, expensive and heavy separates over the last 30 years but am very content with the Devialet solution, 5 boxes weighing well over 100kg replaced by 2 smaller lighter ones that sound just as good and cost much less
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
Oxfordshire
