Coda II
getting there slowly
Actually two questions:
Subjectively, what are the qualities that are so enticing? (assuming that you like them that is)
But also what is it, objectively, that they are doing that gives rise to those qualities?
My listening sample has so far been restricted to a single unit, the 300B Tron Atlantic. And what it does is to portray music, particularly acoustic music, in the most believable way that I have heard. The sense of instruments and voices in a space isn't something I have encountered to the same degree outside of actual instruments and voices.
But is this an illusion? Obviously yes, but what I mean is: is it adding something that the recording process has taken away. Or is it transparent to such a degree that what is there on the recording is allowed to come through? Is it the purity of signal path; because it is single ended, because it is class A that is the biggest contributory factor? Or is it very well managed distortions that conjure the suspension of disbelief?
As with everything, I am sure that there is no specific, definitive answer, but is there consensus?
Subjectively, what are the qualities that are so enticing? (assuming that you like them that is)
But also what is it, objectively, that they are doing that gives rise to those qualities?
My listening sample has so far been restricted to a single unit, the 300B Tron Atlantic. And what it does is to portray music, particularly acoustic music, in the most believable way that I have heard. The sense of instruments and voices in a space isn't something I have encountered to the same degree outside of actual instruments and voices.
But is this an illusion? Obviously yes, but what I mean is: is it adding something that the recording process has taken away. Or is it transparent to such a degree that what is there on the recording is allowed to come through? Is it the purity of signal path; because it is single ended, because it is class A that is the biggest contributory factor? Or is it very well managed distortions that conjure the suspension of disbelief?
As with everything, I am sure that there is no specific, definitive answer, but is there consensus?