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Talking about the headphones amplifiers: Sugden HeadMaster.

I do not subscribe audio publication and buy them only if I’m mood to bitch about something. Occasionally I buy the British Hi-Fi+, which is kind of mandatory to buy living in the New England. I buy it from time to time not because it is better magazine or because the writing in there less foolish then in another publication but juts because the Hi-Fi+ has better pictures, that do this magazine a wonderful bathroom reading…

Today I bought an issue #41 where somebody named Jason Hector writhe his doodles about the Sugden HeadMaster headphone amplifier. I have seen some quite positive media bout this amplifier before but this time I think I need to say something.

Enough!

I do not even quote Mr. Hector, the reviewer extraordinare! I wonder how a person who recognizes yourself as somebody who find that the HeadMaster might be used for sound, would qualify to write for anything more then for a newsletter distributed among the pig’s farmers!

Many years ago, when Sugden juts introduced thier HeadMaster, I was stupidly solicited with the sexy look of this painted aluminum and with 44 inch phrase “class A” on it top panel. I bought the unit sand spent a few weeks in absolute headphone agony. It is not that the HeadMaster sounded more horrible then a headphone jack of a consumer Sony 7700 DVD player. The most horrible was what the HeadMaster did with sound. It was so solid state, so dry and so digitalized that the op-amp from that cheap Sonny lifted up the lid of this DVD transport and screamed “Holly Cow!”

In fact the HeadMaster was so horrible that seriously wonder why it even was made. The depth of conversion of any sound into a syntactic crap via the HeadMaster way exceed the worst component from Krell and Levisohn. It was so disgusting that the dealer who lend it to me, after listing my justification, even offered to pay the shipment back.

Anyhow, the point is that the HeadMaster is not juts a sum down amplifier. If I were not a Cat but a dinosaur then pointing my entire 40 feet tail down would not be sufficient enough indication to depict how bad the HeadMaster sounds.

Your say the Hi-Fi+… The toilet reading…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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