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RE: "On the other hand, they will not "improve" source material"

Perhaps so but my experience (of course, very limited compared to yours) is that an amp that makes relatively poor source material sound "better" as in hiding some of its flaws will not necessarily make good quality source material sound bad - it just wont reveal all the "goodness" and detail the superior source material has. I am not really arguing against great, revealing amplification which with the right source can be amazing. I'm just saying that with some (many?) less than perfect sources an amp with some flaws in its distortion and frequency response characteristics can be preferable and that those same amp characteristics won't necessarily detract from the listener's enjoyment of better source material.

I seem to remember a number of reviews over the years where the reviewer enjoyed the amp and praised its musicality highly while the technical testing showed a deeply flawed performance. I seem to recall one in particular where the amp was "essentially broken" per its performance on the bench yet it sounded wonderful according to the reviewer (Mr. Fremer if memory serves)

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