Decay of a magnitude that was and is downright spooky.

Piano and acoustic music is usually what I put on first simply to get a proper bearing. I set that curiosity aside and began to listen after all thatâ€™s what mattered. Visual inspected revealed no such third driver? There is none! So I thought, well it must have a 15 inch woofer in back then with all that wood after all it had more bass than the B&W N801 which has a 15 inch woofer so it made sense to me after all plenty of speaker have rear firing or side firing drivers. And this timing from a big old â€œThatâ€™s Seventy Showâ€ rectangular plain box with a goofball looking woofer with huge foam surrounds dwarfed by wood, lots of wood! Whereâ€™s the sub? I asked. The timing was to a level that I had never heard to this degree before. Open, fast, and with big scale but always remaining nimble on the subtleties of double bass, guitar etc. Indeed, what was striking to me most of all was the sheer nimbleness of the entire presentation. The timing was extremely tight and nimble on anything with any kind of string. Huge scale! Horns that really had a dynamic front to back sensation â€“ when the horns come in you WILL pay them notice. What struck me was wow that is one smooth Solid State amplifier. So it was quite a surprise to me to hear the AN E/SEC Silver loudspeakers being driven by a MASSIVE Silver amplifier with the Japanese name Meishu on the front, being fed by a big silver tube CD player that such internet blather could be so far from the truth as to drop my jaw.Īt this time I did not know the system was tube based because the amplifier was covered and just looked like one of those big 300 watt Massive SS amps from Krell. My ASL is very quiet and I even ran it as a preamplifier so I began to wonder if the pundits were reading textbooks or if they actually bothered to listen. They were also a pain to operate and expensive, or could be, to replace the tubes. Reading, as I did, so many magazines and internet forums I had a pretty good idea that valves had lots of noise, distortion, and lacked power, resulting in, I was told, no real credible bass and no treble extension. I have grown up in the Solid State era and my first foray into tubes was with my Antique Sound labs MG Head DT Headphone Amplifier. (which was also unknown to me, carried one of the more impressive selections of gear of any dealer I had come across over the years. The dealer I went to, Soundhounds in Victoria B.C. When I first came to this company they were unknown to me. Peter Qvortrup and his design team have managed to eliminate the separation of the music and the gear better than any other system I have heard and let the music, all kinds of music, simply be. I make no secrets of a heavy personal bias towards this companyâ€™s products and their reproduction of music which is, and has been, a revelation for me over the 15 years of listening to music and gear. Thereâ€™s not a lot I can say about Audio Note that I have not already said over the years.

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