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Actually it was not only the best worst amplifier at CES but it was the best worst amplifier I even heard in my life.

So what happen between the WAVAC 833 and Sound? A lot of quite unique things…

A spoke at the show with a friend of my who presumably experienced WAVAC 833 and he complained to me about a load of coloration in this amp. I did not hear any what he called “coloration”, neither tonal not dynamic. The WAVAC 833 sound very sterile, very hygienic and I would say very-very precise. It has a phenomenal transient response and it renders all frequencies very cleanly. I rarely use phrase “resolution” but WAVAC 833 has it in all glory of the word  “resolution” (and I’m not talking about the Spectral-type of resolution but about the very positive and very beneficial resolution). WAVAC 833 has also a fantastic and absolutely non-matched by any other amps resolution and articulation at the lowest volumes. I never experienced this stunning ability of an amp to dig into the very minute details way hidden into noise and ambiances, retrieve from there musical signal that has value and purpose and then present it with a very high level of discrimination of tone and contrast. It was quite a ride to hear how WAVAC 833 did it! In particularly it was surprising to hear how WAVAC 833 did it considering that it appeared that it not make sound sharper – the fashionable illness of most OLTs and many other so-called “high-quality” amplifiers. However, I have to say that I might be mistaken in my estimate of the WAVAC’s sharpening neutrality, as I would need more time and more familiar system to make this conclusion with a higher degree of accuracy. Prematurely: I did not detect any problems at the “# - quality” of this amp

So, if everything was so wonderful then why do I call the WAVAC 833 “the best worst amplifier”? Well, because whatever the WAVAC did, it did it wonderfully, but with completely wrong intentions. Musically WAVAC 833 was not just disasters but it was apocalypsicly catastrophic. It was obviously that the people who design, manufacture and sell the WAVAC targeted their 833 as much to music repudiation as mush the people who design the gas-mask care about the sex-appeal of their products.

When music was playing via WAVAC 833, and am talking about music but not the “soprano-contrabass audio rap”, then I clearly did not recognize the music. It was like the musicians and singers all were singing being conducted by different conductors and like they all did not hear each other. Furthermore, each instrument and each singer suddenly did something absolutely unrelated to what they did. I mean the Ludwig singing Mozart suddenly begun to add the absurd accents in the end each 2th   and 4th line of her libretto and sound almost like a rock-&-roll singer. The string section suddenly begin o act like stop-moment from movie “Matrix” (and the did this “hanging” at completely unexplained moments) or suddenly the strings begum to accelerate without any reasons in the very middle of the phrases.  Another example: those mind-boogieing merging of the voices between Bohm orchestra, Kraus, Ludwig and Schwarzkopf were not only out of any harmonization but all they did totally different things with one being completely irrelevant to other: each of them had own bogus punctuation and infliction. The entire sextet instead of sounding like “We sing a Mozart’s opera” sounded like “wEEEE sINg a mOOotttzzAAaRt’s op-Op-OPERa”. It was so absurd and so unspeakably violent that I had a hard time to imagine that something like this could be even accomplished by the means of electronics.

Was this musical barbarianism auditable with those Hollywood soundtracks that the dealer played all time? I do not think so. I am least I have no references or understanding how that music should sound. I do not think that there are any references and that “audio-rap” music does not necessary based upon the rules of humane harmonies or musical culture. At least when I evaluate audio sound I do not pay attention to the sound itself but the validity of the delivered content. Considering that the music that the dealer played was not the content loaded music it was imposable to detect with that music the horrible things that WAVAC 833 dose to sound.

So, for whom the WAVAC 833 was made? The answer is simple - to satisfy the demands of the brainless and senseless idiots, that luckily for the distributor are well-presented within the audio.

Romy the Cat

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