Interesting observations. I haven't heard the Bakoon, but Questyle also uses current mode amplification and I don't find their stuff lacking in either dynamics or possessing a "warm" sound. Quite the contrary, in fact. FWIW, I auditioned the 430 several years ago and did indeed find it to sound "smoothed-over". Not my cup of tea in the slightest.
The CMA is another good example of current amplification.
Yes I will, but for now waiting for better time.
The other day I was inadvertently playing my Final D8000 and my Sonus Faber Electa Amator 3 speakers, simultaneously, not realizing my speakers were playing music (on my Accuphase e380). I kept wondering how the D8000 was giving me the most out of the head sound stage ever!
A friend of mine regularly used his AKG K1000 with a subwoofer turned on.Been there! Funny what this does to our brains
I get my TT2 back from repair tomorrow (after what feels like a life time of waiting). Currently I'm feeding a modest SMSL M200 DAC into it and I don't want to judge the amp on that. I will say I'm shocked at how the Susvara soaks up the power like it's nothing. Yesterday I was playing some music with a really high dynamic range and I had the DAC at full output to the Etude and into my Susvaras, nothing blew up.You're leaving us hanging. How is it?
I've tried this several times: there is an improvement in dynamics to a degree but it is outweighed by other decreases in sound quality which ruin the experience, so I stick to low gain. I'm thinking of buying a 600i as a speaker amp for use with actual speakers - are you saying it also lacks dynamics then, as a general rule? The 430 sounds lovely with headphones like the HD800S because it adds a smooth speaker like presentation but it falls flat for similar reasons on other headphones: perhaps I'll see the same behavior with the 600i in use with speakers?
Not the Etude, the Mezzo 140 which was the model before the Etude. However, the underworld say the Mezzo 140 is better than the Etude !
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