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Spectron-last post before going to amps

Posted by Duilawyer (A) on March 27, 2008 at 20:28:11

I Bought an ICE amp to power the bass panels of the MG20 today; the 250x2 configuration. Plainwrap ICE $1499.00.

Those who have seen me get ejected know I am the first one to say that some audio "improvement" is bogus or placebo. I consistently said DVDA and SACD sounded either little or no better than CD.

That being said

I mentioned that I am now hearing lyrics that I had never heard.
Turns out that I did not imagine it; I read an article (NOT THE ONE POSTED BELOW) that explained that the very low level of background noise allows the vocal to not be swamped by the instruments. I meant to bookmark it, but unfortunately now cannot find the article to link to. Sorry.

BUT, read the review below who, surprise of surprises, comes up with a similar experience.

From Positive Feedback magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4
Also online at www.positive-feedback.com
Reprinted with Permission
(Note: The 1KW circuit is the same as in the original Musician)

The Spectron 1KW DIGITAL Amplifier - A Pure Class D Killer!
By Mike Pappas, Associate Editor, Digital Technology

A Pure Class D Project

How did I get into this? Well, our fearless editor David Robinson called me about eight weeks ago and told me one of the most fantastic tales I have ever heard....

It seems he had gotten a call from one of the co-founders of Infinity, a John Ulrick, who was now the owner of a company called Spectron. He had created an amplifier and was looking to get it reviewed. So what is so fantastic about that? Well it seems that this amplifier is a solid state class D pulse width modulated (PWM) amplifier. That's right, a fully digital power amp!....

...I started with Pat Metheny's Letter From Home and dialed up the first cut. The next thing that I knew, the CD was over and I was picking up my jaw from off the floor. There's no way that this amplifier is that good!! This disk never sounded like this. The air. The space. The depth. The ease. It just immersed me. This can't be right. It must be some sort of a bizarre symbiotic thing going on with this particular disk.

I grabbed my old reliable Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan 1974 Carnegie Hall recording and dialed up "Song for Strayhorn." This is really bizarre, I am hearing a triangle that I have never heard before. This gets even weirder as the applause is just like sitting in the hall. I can hear the first person clapping - and the next 10 people joining in - and then the whole hall - and then the applause gradually starts to trail off until I can hear the last person stop clapping. No this isn't possible! There is something uncanny going on here. Is this the Twilight Zone? How could this amplifier be letting me hear all of this?

I have got to try another disk. I grabbed Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Four Way Street. This is a funky live recording that has great tunes with what I have always considered to be very marginal engineering. I dialed up "Lee Shore" and sat back for a taste. There is really something off here. The vocal haze that was always on this cut is gone. I can hear the harmonies with crystal clarity that has never existed on any system I have ever heard. I dialed up "Triad" and again the total lack of haze was shocking! The sound stage which used to be constricted was huge and extended way beyond the speakers..."

ICE is to SS; what CD was to cassette.

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