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Best amplifier is the one that you just built…

Yes, it is a common unfortunate law of Audio but the people who know me personally know that try do not behave according to this behavioral pattern. So, this weekend I decided to do try the new Melquiades on the crap that I have been using for a few weeks but quick-make form Macondo a suitable mono speaker suitable for this SET. It took literally 1/4 hour to make the speaker. A pair of 5.5R woofer towers connected in series with 65Hz low pass first order driven from one of the new Melquiades monoblocks.   The Macondo upper bass horn driven full-range juts for sake simplicity. The S3 channel from Macondo with unavoidable 3UuF and the Macondo’s tweeter atop. The horns are driven by the second Melquiades monoblock, full range with EVS attenuator in front to EQ the sensitively gap with the LF chants. The both Melqs eventually fed with new tubes and driven the 180V, 200mA.

What is that marvelous sound; it was exactly the Melq that I remember. It is not exactly even because the speaker is simplified but it is the very-very the same sound as Melq is need to do. It has stunning resolution and transparency but it never go further into hyper-resolution and artificial effects. It has fantastic speed and transient characteristic but at the same time it perfectly maintains something that I call “acoustic-like harmonic structure” and capable to produce very fluent and soft sound. I have written about it  and many other things during my “Melquiades discovery phase”….

Anyhow, I juts listened on this my temporary playback a very complicated peace and mine the very favorite performance of Rafael Kubelik leading Berlin with Dvorak's Ninth Symphony. It is scare how good it is and how good the new Melqs handled it with … almost smile.

Good! I am very glad now with the result.

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