Having been fiddling around with kit for a couple of decades now, I think that the 3 camp stuff is a little simplistic. Whilst the groups you mention, might be the "major" camps, and you have to do is ask for a recommendation on a piece of kit, and see the answers you get. On far too many forums you'll get an answer of "buy X piece of kit, it's ace, cos I've got one", and if said piece of kit is twice the budget suggested there's probably going to be "save up for it, don't be a stingy git, you know it'll be worth it". Frankly, completely useless advice.
My belief is that almost all manufacturers have their own style of presentation, often denoted by history, and the preference of their designers. So Arcam does sound different to Linn, Naim, Audionote, Krell, Musical Fidelity etc, and NONE of those answers are wrong. If the designer liked it, it means that some % of the buying public probably will to. As such, the important bit in our hobby is to find the style of presentation that bests suits the individual. Unfortunately it's not an easy thing to do, and can be quite expensive along the way. As for myself. From experience I like the dynamics of horn loaded speakers, have found that they work best with valve styles of presentation and don't want something that will rip my head off when I try to play compressed rock music. So my system has awesome transient attacks which has been achieved without the use of over energetic leading edges, meaning that it can be used effectively with a wide variety of music. -- Mr_Sukebe SB+, Behringer 2496DEQ, Bel Canto DAC2, Bel Canto Evo2i, Impulse Ta'us, Coherent cables, Stillpoints ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mr_Sukebe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10609 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34379 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
