Building my system over the past 15 years now and this is as good as it's ever been. Would have to spend incredible amounts more to get any better. Competes with the best!
Wonderfully open, clean, black background. Really brought out a lot of micro/macro dynamics all around, top to bottom
Wadia 861
860 factory upgraded. Incredible performance. Really elevated all things including my CD collection. Everything put through it sounds amazing. And built like a tank!
You're right Plato. Diminishing returns once you've hit the 10-15k line. The Red Wine amps were one of the most incredible upgrades coming from the 2k range power amp range and testing amps in the 5k range I could never be happy. Most great amps seem to really shine once they've hit 6 or 7k and up. Too much for my blood. I started with the 30.2 amp that was excellent. Great dynamics, smooth, natural, not forced. Tube like but linear top to bottom. However it wasn't powerful enough for higher listening levels to fill a room or a party. The mono blocks were the only way to achieve this into a 4ohm speaker (my Elac's). Just beautiful, graceful, and rich in every way.
