11-Dec-2018, 08:59
(10-Dec-2018, 23:43)JimSmith Wrote: @thumb5 I don't think what I am hearing is coloration. What I am hearing though is more information within the musical passages, a stretching if you may of the soundstage fabric revealing more instruments within the ensemble. Yes when the music is not complex the instruments do sound more fuller and rounder which could be attributed to the power amplifier.
I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the notion that noise and/or distortion can result in apparent improvements to detail and soundstage; I've heard that anecdotally and there seems to be evidence for it (though I'd have to do some digging to remember where I saw that). It's another example of the tension between accuracy and "sounding good".
Whatever the root cause of the difference, it's clear you like the sound so I hope you can capture it and incorporate it somehow into your system.
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