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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: To Milq builders: corrections, simplification, modifications.
Post Subject: Ok, let talks about Milq….Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/11/2015
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dI, thanks for your post. It is an interesting post, might I comment upon it? I do not share your experience with Melquides amplifier even those I know exactly what your were taking about when you wrote about changing own expectations by observing the amp performance. I went over exactly the same things during my few years with original Lamm ML2.0, which I consider is way more powerful educational tool then Milq. The objective of Melquides was to much sonic and exoteric ML2’s performance. To a degree Milq did and in some extend went way beyond ML2 as Lamm amp is very rigid in his performance expressionism and has very strict presentational boundaries. 
 
Can a properly configured Milq will cause you to forget about amps for the foreseeable future? I would probably say no. If you have sophisticated tonal demands then probably the word of vintage DHT might deliver to you more results mostly, one-sided results however.  It never was a problem to me as after making the Milq I immediately went to DSET with Milq – a very different world all together. There is another whole array of characteristics where I feel Milq would lose to a specially tailored amp.  All together however, I think Milq is a very reasonable and well balanced amp.  
 
To forget about amps is not truly sonic state but rather the state of wondering of audiophile mind… It is a complicated subject and I do not want to talk about it now. What is interesting in your post is a derivative question: when an audiophile mind and his listening preferences are evolved and sound made by Milq become no enough. I feel that in DSET configuration, the vintage drivers and DHT at MF it might be satisfactory for very a long time.

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