Most transparent amp you've heard?

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.

After years of listening to many pieces of equipment and some not [all] making me want to listen to my records and cd's all over again.....I think whenever I say wow I never heard that before it is more transparent.....My Vac amp stays constant and every other change I make is a difference..so it allows me to make progress toward transparency, which is a good thing. Also the wow factor I can't easily say what it is...it is so many things.

Agree with Pubul57. It is interesting to be able to hear the engineers signature in a recording, not to mention the sound stage changes from one recording to another.

When Ken Stevens of CAT was asked by a resistor manufacturer what kind of flavor he wanted, his answer was that he wanted them to have the flavor of water. I think he meant that the sound of a piece of equipment should be like a chameleon so that issues of bass, soundstaging, imaging, dynamics, etc are a refelection of the recording, not an overlay on the recording. I think this is he definition of neutrality and transparency. I think the CAT was very transparent in this sense, and to an even greater degree the Atma-sphere amps, at least with my Merlins.