Thanks for your review. Very informative.
It is unfortunate that Head-fi now requires one to wade through a 5 page thread about an amp to extract just a smidgen of information. The signal to noise ratio has really plunged in the last few years. Instead of impressions, you get 70-odd posts, mostly BS by one member demonstrating his superior ability to recall how opamp 1234 sounds worse than opamp 2345, 3456, 4567 etc, etc, etc. I guess he is intent on proving he has a better memory than Rain Man.
But he did succeed in convincing me not to buy this amp. It is not because I believe his dismissal of the opamp is accurate. It is because I know the demand for this amp should I ever decide to sell it will suck...the reason being that potential buyers will search the keyword "Violetric" and read 5 pages of diarrhea about how the amp absolutely has to suck, written by someone who has never heard it. Go figure.I haven't waded through any tube amp threads lately. Are people now dismissing amps that use, say 6H30s instead of 6SN7s, because the former absolutely must sound worse than the latter? I shudder to think.
In general, I stick to reviews that Skylab has written. It would be nice if he was able to review this amp, as the signal to noise ratio of his typical review is very high.
I wish Head-Fi would just get rid of the "Headphoneus Supremus" title and not show post counts. Audiocircle and Audiogon forums are much more civil and informative, probably because nobody is ever designated as an expert based on how many times he has hit the "reply" button. Does any company reward employees for how many e-mail messages he composed or replied to, regardless of information content?
I have been a member of Head-Fi since 2006, but because I work full-time in a high pressure job, I don't have the time or the desire to post ad infinitum. I come here for information. It is unfortunate that the quality of discourse is not what it used to be.
