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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET
Post Subject: Expedited soundPosted by anthony on: 4/27/2019
 Romy the Cat wrote:
 The “expedited” sound shorten a bit the decay time/volume and makes transients more prevailing. This is what very commonly audio people feel as “quality” but I degree with it.  
 


Romy, in my previous response I did not address this ^^^ head-on, rather from all other directions in terms of experiences with other dacs.

Thinking more about "expedited" sound and how you describe it, I think that I do understand what you are trying to convey.  At the other end of the spectrum there is also "lazy" sound, which to me is a SET amp being used fullrange into completely inappropriate loudspeakers.  Wet, slow, transients lacking especially in the lower frequencies...all colour and no content.  Not even the right type of colour, the wrong type, audible distortion.  The worst of this I have heard is some diy open baffle speakers powered by SET amps...wow that sounded horrible but the diyer LOVED it...

The "expedited" sound is just as abhorrent to me as the "lazy" sound and for more or less the same reasons.  Just as "lazy" is all colour and no content, "expedited" is no colour and no content.  Both lack suitable texture, or resolution or what we individually call it in our own minds.  

I would not characterise the Phasure dac as "expedited" sound, quite far from it...although that diyer I mentioned with the SET powered open baffles may call it cold and colourless...haha. 

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