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Originally Posted by Puma Cat

Like Turntable, Philippe, I'm not sure the ART amp would be that much of an improvement over your LP140Ms!

Stephen
i have never had the pleasure to listen to LP275M or ART mono
but in his excellent LP70s/LP140M/LP275M review Roy Gregory - HiFi+ issue 52
stated :
so far so good and the 70 is certainly no slouch, wich makes the gulf in performance between it and LP140M once you put them face to face so much more surprising. The monoblocks bring a dramatic increase in weight, musical and harmonic complexity, instrumental body and presence, musical poise and authority. This is a big change : it's not a little bit more at the top, a little bit more at the bottom, it's a wholesale reassessment of the musical performance-both of te recording himself and the system playing it.
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Listen to the 275s and you get more of what the 140s deliver. You get better separation and greater air....You get a more defined acoustic with clearer boundaries....you get even more dynamic range...but beyond all that, you get more musical message, greater musical impact. With the 275, drumbeats are not just more solid, they're more emphatic. Musical accents and pauses have greater effects, the line of a melody, the intent in a phrase is more definite...
The draw in the music is almost like emotional undertow, pulling you in. You might start by listening to this track or that, but you finish up just listening. And you listen longer tan you should, even whiilst deadlines beckon. Yes you can define what's happening in terms of extended bandwidth and quicker transient response, the temporal authority that they bring. You can talk about air and control, but the result of these qualities in combination is wonderfully, almost addictively compelling on a purely musical level. The 140's are extremely fine amps, sharing many of the qualities that make the 275s so special. But their big brother take things that much further, go that much deeper into the music and the performance they produce is at once wonderfully unforced and immediate.....this is a contained delivery that projects the intent in a performance with such direct power that it connects straight to the listener, placing you in the same place as the performers.....you feel the guiding hand of Dorati as he directs and balances the performance, binding soloist and orchestra into a single whole. It's that makes a great performance, it's that the 275s deliver.
There's a real magic lurking in the elegantly burky, ruinously expensive 275s and those who can ignore question of value are lucky indeed...

some food for the week end
enjoy your LP70s it is a great great amp
Philippe