P Floding wrote: > dwc Wrote: > >>So is Naim more like Clyde Stubblefield or Zigaboo Modeliste? >> >>edit: agentsmith - nothing personal, I just struggle with comprehending >>nebulous audiophile terms like PRAT, i.e. how can a freaking amplifier >>have rhythm??? > > > It sure can have not-rhythm..
Absolutely. Once you get off the bottom rung of the hifi ladder, i.we. you've got an setup that can reproduce music at a reasonable volume without slipping/distoring/whatever, further improvements are harder to describe. PRAT is an attempt to describe the effects. It's actually really hard to explain. I can give an example of my own personal experience. I had a (stock) Rotel RA820A amp for sometime. It's OK, nothing spectacularm a little under-pwoered - the bottom rung, if you like. I'd become to feel dissatisfied with my listening experience - the sound was constricted, like it couldn't breathe (see what I mean about it being difficult to describe?). So much so, in fact, that when I did a listening test neither myself or ModelCitizen (hi!) could tell the difference between SB1 analogue out and SB1 digital out into a Perpetual Technologies P3-A DAC or an Arcam Alpha or an Art DI/O. That spurred me to get my soldering iron out and mod the amp. I replaced a couple of op amps, replaced some caps, added bypass caps, and (and this made the most difference) completely removed the tone control section from the circuit. Well, what a difference. My music came alive, the sound stage opened up massively. The whole sound became musical. That, to me, is (P)ace, (R)hythm (A)nd (T)iming. R. _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
