Most transparent amp you've heard?

Tvad- If the reproduction in my listening room is true(largely- no claim to perfection here) to the original session, what more can be asked? The TacT RCS(modded), and room treatments that I am employing do a very nice job of eliminating the listening room from the equation. To be honest: I'd have deleted that last post after re-reading it, had this site allowed it. It smacks of a persecution complex. Please note: I never even made a recommendation. Hardly the sign of a wannabe oracle. I am surprised that no one has mentioned interconnects and cables(more variables) with regards to the lack of transparency innate to most.

VTL Siegfiried. Haven't heard the Halcro, but this VTL is the best amplifier of any description that I have ever heard in my life. It makes the Ayre monoblocks sound like a mass market receiver by comparison.

09-02-08: Rodman99999
Tvad- If the reproduction in my listening room is true(largely- no claim to
perfection here) to the original session, what more can be asked?

The most important question to be asked is how do
you know if the reproduction is true to the original session? Your listening
room is identical to the mixing room? You have playback gear identical to
the equipment in the mixing room, in addition to the equipment in your
personal playback system? You personally attended the mixing session and have
perfect aural sense memory to compare what you heard in the mixing room
to what you hear in your listening room?

You can see that the idea that anyone can answer yes to these questions is
ludicrous. Therefore, it's unlikely that you or anyone can claim to true
reproduction of the recording event, because it's simply impossible to do so.

Well, I don't know about absolutes or anything, but one aspect of a transparent amp, or system, is that the soundscape changes signficantly from recording to recording - that is the system tends not to be homegenized in sound signature, but let's recordings come through more tellingly and reflecting the differences between recording venues and engineering - to me, that is usually a good sign.

Gents, I am getting a headache. . . G.