ScubaSteve87
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Well I have had the amp for a while, but no 1/4 inch to 1/8 adapter so couldn't use it. I finally tired it hooked up to my headphone out on my laptop, (no DAC yet) and my Sure E4c (no HF-1 yet). Already I do like it, but I assume it will improve a lot more with a external DAC and new phones instead of the E4's. So yeah all my impressions are based off that... The only amp I can compare it too is my evilfire cmoy.
The sound is nice, but very analytical. I have heard many comments that the Gilmore Lite sounds very "solid statey". If this means as I think it does, this is true. I notice much more detail than my cmoy and also better instrument seperation. The sounds is very nice, but I do sometimes find myself wishing for a warmer sound. The Glmore makes me E4c's sound a lot more like my old Ety ER4p's. The mids and highs are very detailed and clear, but the bass is a little lacking, most likely because of the crap radioshack cabels I just bought (gonna be buiding some of my own here soon) and also my headphone line out sucks.). Bass is probably not the amps fault. Foobar equilzer fixes this a little bit, but the bass then lacks some tightness and definition. Those are my quick impressions, Ill have to give some more when I get my home rig completed and get my cables built. Overall I like the sound though, it is a noticable imporvement over the cmoy, but I can easliy see myself moving to something else or eventually moving too a tube amp. Once I get some more DIY experience with cables I am prob going to build a millet hybrid.
The sound is nice, but very analytical. I have heard many comments that the Gilmore Lite sounds very "solid statey". If this means as I think it does, this is true. I notice much more detail than my cmoy and also better instrument seperation. The sounds is very nice, but I do sometimes find myself wishing for a warmer sound. The Glmore makes me E4c's sound a lot more like my old Ety ER4p's. The mids and highs are very detailed and clear, but the bass is a little lacking, most likely because of the crap radioshack cabels I just bought (gonna be buiding some of my own here soon) and also my headphone line out sucks.). Bass is probably not the amps fault. Foobar equilzer fixes this a little bit, but the bass then lacks some tightness and definition. Those are my quick impressions, Ill have to give some more when I get my home rig completed and get my cables built. Overall I like the sound though, it is a noticable imporvement over the cmoy, but I can easliy see myself moving to something else or eventually moving too a tube amp. Once I get some more DIY experience with cables I am prob going to build a millet hybrid.