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In the Thread: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications.
Post Subject: "got milq"Posted by dl on: 1/9/2015
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It might be true that a properly configured Milq will cause you to forget about amps for the foreseeable future, if not forever...but really it is not so simple, especially if you are accustomed to particularly high-performing (unfortunately offensively expensive, for the most part) SET amps. If you are used to middle of the road crap, or worse, as the great majority of audio enthusiasts are, then the Milq is a categorical, unqualified winner, "stock" from your local builder. It is extraordinarily fast (not just in terms of acceleration, but also deceleration, where most of the realism typically missing in audio actually lies) and open sounding (wow, soundstage!), and has unusually good (great?) bass. But taming this circuit to your sonic demands (I don't say "expectations," and I doubt that most listeners even have "demands") is a very, VERY involved process, both technically and psychologically. From the first notes, there is a huge promise -- a combination of extreme power (sounds like 100W -- or 1000W, if you opt for the LL1693) and extreme passiveness (every inch of cable radically changes the sound of this amp) -- that will convince you that you can finally control every aspect of your overall sonic presentation. But you will be swapping out everything from DAC's to diodes to drivers to capitalize on what you have now discovered (the double-edged sword of "transparency"). The Milq is a tabula rasa, not a quick fix for beginners, and thankfully I am not one. But whatever your experience, the Milq somehow turns you into a beginner, like it or not, and you very well might not leave with the same "religion" you came in with. As I did, you might arrive at an unusually LYRICAL and "perfect" sound. But some years later! And you will still be left with a 5-year plan for what's next...
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