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Originally Posted by Bar81
Ayre is not controlling it well so it sounds tubby and fat
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You will have same "fat sound" with other amps.Just better controlled. The key is to find amp which will be lean ,fast, open tight in the bass, but not very technical in the mids. Not an easy task to combine those two values. Not speaking about DAC which should be very airy (maestro very top ocatve abit mellow, I still hear up to 17khz and 12-20khz in Maestro is not airy as Sonus fabers)
but the worst combo when with amps which is polite, slow sounding. Then speakers just sound uninvolving and boring. Fast, vey open, upfront "in your face" kinf of amps does trick. This is for normal audiophile records , listening on moderate levels. When listening electronic music and volume is cranked speakers opens up with most amps.