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Another interesting observation....
 
A remarkable things about the Melquiades’ sound is that the Melquiades' notes have much more "spaceal load" then anything else out there, and I do not talk about harmonics but actually "Space". Also the Melquiades allow with much greater ease then any other amps out there to travel across the “clouds of sound”. ...

When I would like to focus my listening attention to one of another instrument/participant then Melquiades relay furnish that life-like ability to observe a subject of music in focus but holding the subject within the fabric of the entire musical presentation. It kind of really freaky because while you’re listening you might literally to spotlight your attention to a specific part of music, to the group of the instruments, you might even dissect them out of the whole musical presentation but while you do so, the amp for whatever reasons do not remove your awareness about the rest of music and keep a listener’s alertness very informed about everything sonically-else. The Melquiades has that “side vision” and I have no idea how and why but this is very tangible and very astonishing quality.
That spaceal, 360-degree, extended-vector-length presentation that I mentioned has nothing to do with “air around the instruments” or similar BS that the audio reviewers-idiots keep dumping to the audio suckers. When I mentioned the “lengthy 360-gegree” I did not a geometry of sonic clouds but rather the ability of sonic sources to be perspected. I’ll try to explain what it is because this concept unfortunately does not east in the realm of typical hi-fi understanding.

Pretend you look at real world via TV and see for instance a group of people from 50 feet. Now you decided to approach this group of the people closer and you zoom the camera in. You do it with longer focus lens and not can recognize more details on the person face. However the interesting fact was that you did not approach the person but you moved the image of the person closer to yourself via the transfocator lens. Zooming-in and to move physically with the cameras closer to the subject are although superficially serve the same purposes but fundamentally they are very deferent methods. Any person who familiar with the culture of visual presentation within a second, juts by looking at a print, will tell you if the image was taken by the zooming or by the actual approaching. Zooming-in screw Reality up by compressing the perspective but to move-in with camera does not. Our human eyes have a normal for us sense of perspective and we know how the projection of the subject to it’s backhand changes since we move closer or further to the subjects. The moving closer or further to the subject via an optical system introduces an instant perception of artificiality. (No wonder that Henri Cartier-Bresson and alike him hated any lenses that were longer then a diagonal of negative). So, I never heard any amp that allowed me to mentally accent my attention on a certain aspect of music in the way I do it with “life” music or sound. Reproduce sound always presents the musical messages as Booleans: get this or get this. It always has a certain hierarchy and “fixed” sound: you can get it or you not but if you do get it and if you dive in then you should listen it only in “this” way. With the Melquiades everything is absolutely different: it is completely free form any structural abuse of listening. You can go in and out, go “across” and turn your back to the event (certainly I do not talk about physical positioning relative to soundstage) or just allow yourself to do whatever consciousness experiments you wish.

For the last 2-3 weeks that I am running the Melquiades I made some listening experiments with the amps that previously found were absolutely unspeakable within context of a playback and only were achievable with “live” music. Some of those “tricks” partially could be performed with audio but it always introduces some different backfire.  Believe me not but since I was playing with Melquiades I did not detect (so far) any negative consequences with my listening awareness. For whatever reason this amp really operate at the very different level of Realism.

To be continue…

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