let's not forget the T word... (BD-Design)

by GC, Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 07:43 (6944 days ago) @ GC
edited by GC, Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 07:46

Transparency

I recently understood this term when I was auditioning a Japanese 211 SET vs a Russian 6C33C SET, both well known manufactuers, both rated around 18 watts. The Japanese SET sounded so very colored, it had a very harsh distictive fingerprint in the sound reproduction, where as the Russian designed SET was the most transparent I have heard to date, no initial sonic imprint could be heard to my ear. The overall system remained the same, we just swapped out the monoblocks for comparison.

All I heard were instruments and not disconnected bass (relative to the other amps). There was so much more texture in the instruments.

So now that I know what transparency actually means, I think this this ranks very high when considering sound reproduction.

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