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I should have said KAV 250a...
The Champ is fabulous on the Aps - smooth, warm, powerful, even handed, easy to listen too. That is, until you connect the M-60s, when you realise it is veiled, and very obviously so by comparison. But then I've already talked about that on the high power amp thread.
The Graaf did really entertaining imaging with the MBLs. Nicely fleshed out, I would put it.
Doesn't matter what anyone really thinks, though, including me. Just carry on doing your thang, Jerry.
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Doesn't matter what anyone really thinks, though, including me. Just carry on doing your thang, Jerry.
I might call the Accu M60s 'forensic' - impressive but not sure I could live with them.
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Frustrating and irritating discovery yesterday about headphones.
The reason I found on-ear types uncumfy turns out to be that I wear glasses.
Take them off, or have them hooked over the headphone pad, and they are hugely more cumfy.
It was the headphones pressing the arms of the glasses against my ears that was the problem.
I've sold on some on-ears due to comfort issues.
Ah well, live and learn.
Still, it enables me to really enjoy the Musical Fidelity MF-100 'phones for extended listening - they are really quite special now that they have run in.
I've ordered a pair of MF-200 .... said to be much less comfortable due to revised headband design being much less flexible but a sonic improvement on the 100. I'll see how I get on with them.
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The M-60s are the OLED TV kind of presentation. Deeply impressive when fed with a reference quality source i.e. they show all they could reasonably be expected to. The Champ, more LED lit LCD i.e. less well defined. You might call that refined.No worries about that.
I might call the Accu M60s 'forensic' - impressive but not sure I could live with them.
At the end of the day I prefer high res rather than less so.
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New amp.
Carat A57.
Arrived yesterday. Very impressed so far.
It's been on my vague Want List since this review came out nearly 8 years ago! http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/the...ted-amplifier/
Will say more once I have more listening under my belt ... but most amps get the old heave-ho quite quickly, this one is definitely staying a while!
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Nice looking amp Jerry. I'd swap out the blue leds mind, as Im not a big fan, but otherwise it looks tops. whats the output on that then?
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I'm a blue LED fanboy, so it's fine by me.
80wpc into 8 ohms, 150wpc into 4 ohms - so it's got a decent power supply in there.
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The review says nowt that I saw about the original retail price. Any idea?
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£1k back in 2008.
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It's a bit of a cheeky chappie style wise. Most Primare.
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Ha! - so it is.
I've never heard any Primare gear.
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