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What a little gem of a story and a treausred brief glance back into some of the Albarry history, I thank you kindly ellamoo, maybe one day Albert, Barry or Neil will honour us here with a post, what a great treat that would be.
I remember "Its a Knockout" very well, we were all graced with the presence of Princess Anne and Prince Edward as hosts in the 80's as I recall, wasn't this the first time that members of the Royal family were involved with a public event that was screened for TV?? oh my and Eddy Waring was the commentator in the early days, oh the memories come flooding to the fore
It is interesting that a small British cottage industry business like Albarry Music should take their inspiration from one of the Japanese giants of the time, most Japanese amps and certainly speakers were regarded as sounding bright and for want of a better word "tinny" back then, this just amazes me to learn that the benchmark was from the far east, I can understand the Beard comparison, I believe the Albarry is probably only one of a few SS amps that is able to achieve an almost valve like quality to its sound, it is rich and warm yet has subltes in fine detail and scale that I have not heard from most of my other SS amps, to be absolutely honest, when I first got my M-408's up to speed I wanted to scrap them, seriously, I thought they sounded thick, flabby bass, no mid detail or depth of image, everything just sounded so bland after being used to the Naim sound, and they certainly did not appear to exhibit any PRaT. So I swapped the source CDP around, I won't say what for what, and spent some more time actually listening to the music and NOT the system and what emerged was a revelation, all the detail, space, depth, and scale of musical presentation was there, nothing like the Naim sound that oozes these qualities, but my word what I was listening to was amazing, a real treat just to sit back and enjoy the performance of the artist rather than judging the performance of the latest cap swap, or regulator tweak, and I am not knocking the DIY up-grade path, I have done more than my fair share of it and endorse it 100%, but it can sometimes take over from the joy of the real reason of what we all strive to achieve, simply " enjoyable music " thanks again ellamoo, wonderful stuff.
Paul
I remember "Its a Knockout" very well, we were all graced with the presence of Princess Anne and Prince Edward as hosts in the 80's as I recall, wasn't this the first time that members of the Royal family were involved with a public event that was screened for TV?? oh my and Eddy Waring was the commentator in the early days, oh the memories come flooding to the fore
It is interesting that a small British cottage industry business like Albarry Music should take their inspiration from one of the Japanese giants of the time, most Japanese amps and certainly speakers were regarded as sounding bright and for want of a better word "tinny" back then, this just amazes me to learn that the benchmark was from the far east, I can understand the Beard comparison, I believe the Albarry is probably only one of a few SS amps that is able to achieve an almost valve like quality to its sound, it is rich and warm yet has subltes in fine detail and scale that I have not heard from most of my other SS amps, to be absolutely honest, when I first got my M-408's up to speed I wanted to scrap them, seriously, I thought they sounded thick, flabby bass, no mid detail or depth of image, everything just sounded so bland after being used to the Naim sound, and they certainly did not appear to exhibit any PRaT. So I swapped the source CDP around, I won't say what for what, and spent some more time actually listening to the music and NOT the system and what emerged was a revelation, all the detail, space, depth, and scale of musical presentation was there, nothing like the Naim sound that oozes these qualities, but my word what I was listening to was amazing, a real treat just to sit back and enjoy the performance of the artist rather than judging the performance of the latest cap swap, or regulator tweak, and I am not knocking the DIY up-grade path, I have done more than my fair share of it and endorse it 100%, but it can sometimes take over from the joy of the real reason of what we all strive to achieve, simply " enjoyable music " thanks again ellamoo, wonderful stuff.
Paul