Muralmans' amps reviewed Ultra Audio.

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Your prize is to go to Sacramento and listen MM1's system(I live close by).

The review makes me more interested, not exactly what I was expecting.

It seems the reviewer likes amps which are light and nimble rather than lush and romantic...probably why he does not like tubes. I've never heard the H2O's so don't know what they sound like. I was extreamly impressed with the preamp from this company "The Fire"...and Fire is a good name for this baby...cause it do run HOT!...as a matter of fact, when I pulled it out of the box and saw the heat sinks running down both sides I thought it looked more like a power amp than a preamp.

Dave

The reviewer refers to the Nuforce' as being "silver" and the H2O's as being "bronze". Perhaps the reviewer is holding out on his "gold".
Sometimes it's the reviewer's description rather than his conclusion that intrigues me.

12-12-06: Sogood51
It seems the reviewer likes amps which are light and nimble rather than lush and romantic...probably why he does not like tubes.

If this is indeed true, then the reviewer has never heard an even marginally good modern tube amp, which are generally characterized as being quite light and nimble. Lush and romantic does not describe the good tube amps made today, unless the user chooses to "tune" them by substituting tubes with those characteristics.