by Paolo

EUROPEAN PREMIERE | The sound beyond the Class-D.

Speaking of the past, I preferred the solid state. Speaking about now, I consider more interesting what you can achieve with the tube amplifiers.

Only the bad designed tube devices are slow and sugary. The Estro Armonico Bellaluce phono preamp offers performances whose dynamic contrast and impulse velocity can’t be offered by the solid state.

Honestly, I can’t find on the market any other amplifier at the same price that performs better than the Kueyen, I really can’t.

I have never thought to test an object that represents a solid bridge between the analogue and the digital world.

One of the stereo amplifications with more watts: beyond 500 into 4 ohms and capable, on paper, to drive any loudspeaker in whatever domestic environment.

An impartial advice. Listen to live music when you are still alive.

Only a designer fond of music will make an involving object with great performances. After all Music is emotion, isn’t it? And the Leben preamp? The passion is there, just in front of you.

In my opinion, a good mains filter is not only an accessory but an out-and-out component of the system. Hence an object indispensable to help the electronics to perform at best.

The RI-100 has the inborn capacity of preserving every single instrument, almost guiding it into a precise, marked and correctly recreated scenic context. It is easy to read also the instruments in the background hidden inside the instrumental amalgam.

The phono preamplifier is the most important object in the analogue chain and, with a cost of little more than one thousand euro, the Bakoon EQA-11 has few competitors indeed.

Leben follows an alternative path that aims to a target of musical research instead of looking for an exclusive circuital choice or a particular passive component. A research that is not standardized in a modern audiophile world where everything seems to perform in a uniform or at least alike way.

Designing an OTL that works, and good, it is not that simple. The S.I. Audio Cult/I amp shows how much can be made with clear ideas.

Power supply, final stage, and circuitry: there are different ways to design and make a solid-state amplifier. Then there is Nelson Pass's way.