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Burn-in my Bun-ion!
I just hooked up my brand new ATI 1502, but before I did so I listened to one of my favorite reference CD's on my Denon 3805...Herb Albert's Rise. Great sonics...one of the first ever digital recording ('79) on a 3M-32 track digital recorder and mastered my Bernie Grundman. The cuts "Rotation" and the title track are particularly great for evaluation.
Wife and kids were gone so I cranked it up first with the Denon...then switched to the ATI (225 RMS into 4ohms) and it was incredible. I thought
the Denon was sounding pretty good but I could get it to clip on the second bass solo on Rise. Rotation has a lot of percussion and faint sound effects in the background that hard to single out. Hard to single out until I heard them through the ATI...the detail was just amazing. I also heard a triangle playing towards the end of "Rise" that I NEVER heard before...I've listened to that CD a few hundred times and I was actually missing an entire musician. The ATI brought it right out...faintly...but it was clearly there.
I can't imagine this amp sounding any better than it sounds now...don't know how I would notice it at this point. I think I need a $20,000 Classe' now!
I just hooked up my brand new ATI 1502, but before I did so I listened to one of my favorite reference CD's on my Denon 3805...Herb Albert's Rise. Great sonics...one of the first ever digital recording ('79) on a 3M-32 track digital recorder and mastered my Bernie Grundman. The cuts "Rotation" and the title track are particularly great for evaluation.
Wife and kids were gone so I cranked it up first with the Denon...then switched to the ATI (225 RMS into 4ohms) and it was incredible. I thought
the Denon was sounding pretty good but I could get it to clip on the second bass solo on Rise. Rotation has a lot of percussion and faint sound effects in the background that hard to single out. Hard to single out until I heard them through the ATI...the detail was just amazing. I also heard a triangle playing towards the end of "Rise" that I NEVER heard before...I've listened to that CD a few hundred times and I was actually missing an entire musician. The ATI brought it right out...faintly...but it was clearly there.
I can't imagine this amp sounding any better than it sounds now...don't know how I would notice it at this point. I think I need a $20,000 Classe' now!