The Fastest most musical amp

Thank you all for you really great and informative reply!

I started this thread as a open one without having to let you know what is my taste and my setup (since this setup is ever changing) but to try to find out with the help of our really great Audiophiles comunity what amp/preamp would qualify as the fastest to help anyone with that kind of taste to find their match.

Disma--

Try something like a Naim 82/Hicap/250 combination. Very fast, very tuneful, terrific sounding. Also built extremely well, will last forever, and the company will be around in 20 years if anything does go wrong.

Best Regards,

Bob

I used to own an all Spectral/MIT system driving speakers very similar to JM Labs Utopias. This system was extremely fast. The MIT cables actually opened the sound up tremendously,i.e., they did ib no way slow things down. The one complaint I had for this set-up was that it could have been a touch warmer. But, hey, this is THE big trade-off still out there, speed vs. musicality. The choice is up to you.

I have since been forced (economically) to downsize my system. I currently use a tube hybrid AVA Transcendence 7 preamp. This unit is in now way "slow". It is extremely fast (not as fast as the Spectral DMC-20 pre) with very good dynamics and bass control, all qualities I like in a system. Tubes do not have to be slow. Just do your research on this subject.

Hope this helps.

Fast? You want fast?
Atma-sphere OTL amps are amongst the fastest amps out there, and they do it so effortlessly that you at first may not even be aware of the speed...until you realize that you are hearing leading and trailing edges of notes that you don't even hear on the Spectral. Just bloody amazing...but...there is always a but...OTL amps tend to be a bit persnickity about speaker loads. The Zero autoformer alliviates most of the impedance problems though.

If slew rates alone mean anything, the Atma-sphere runs in excess of 600 volts per microsecond...and actually sounds like it. Great settling time is the other side of the equation; and most amp companies don't ever talk about that.

Spectral preamps are very fast, and the Atma-sphere preamp is synergistic with their amps.

I tried many high end amps the oddyssey stratos extreme.
is the fastest, and plinius SA100 mark ll second.IMS