Most transparent amp you've heard?

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.

Stop reading, G., and take two Tylenol.

I will tonight. . . 3mg Melotonin. Must be all this talk about transparent signals being molested by amps and speakers. I am a very urh. . . sensitive audiophile. G.