Our own Vinnie Rossi, of Red Wine Audio, has created an amplifier masterpiece...
the Signature 30 digital amplifier...30 watts of dynamite and refinement that rivals or
betters the best SET amplifiers on the planet...regardless of price!!!
Here is a link to Red Wine Audio:
http://www.redwineaudio.com/index.htmland the link to RWA's manufactures circle:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?board=78The Signature 30 arrived on Friday afternoon...it was playing in my system
within 5 minuets of opening the box...it is driving simple Open Baffle panels
with 2 Visaton B200 drivers per panel...the bottom driver uses an inductor that cuts
off frequencies over 100Hz at 6db's per octave~
Out of the box the Signature 30 sounds perfect!!!!!
Come on Richard. Out of the Box...perfect?
Perfect...this does not sound like any amp I have ever heard.
Deb: "It sounds like a SET tube amp that is perfect!!!", "I never heard that
layering before in that musical piece", "I never knew there was a second voice
in that song" "Fantastic detail", "...smooth, very smooth..." "the horns sound
fantastic" and so on~
Deb is NOT an audiophile...but she does listen to music with extraordinary sensitivity~
I have several SET amps in my house...actually the best SET I have ever
heard...thanks to Roger Modjesky...and the best SEPentode I have ever
heard...even Roger likes it (he did not design it)...yet I cannot take the Signature 30
out of the system...it is addicting...seductive...beguiling...fan
tastic~
Here is what it sounds like with only 3 days of play time on it: imagine the best
SET tube design...but with every issue worked out to perfection...that is what the
Signature 30 sounds like...PERFECT!!!!!
The most emphatic characteristic is the BALANCE!!!!! extraordinary balance of
the entire frequency gamut...creating a thoroughly ORGANIC musical
gestalt...fluid...palpable...present~
The second most emphatic characteristic is its ability to pull apart any dense
musical fabric to reveal the complex layering in a 3-dimensional holographic
presentation...and yet still hold everything together as a single continuous
flow of music~
The third most emphatic characteristic is the upper frequency resolution...
delicate, lovely, easy, completely non-fatiguing...no glare what-so-ever~
For Deborah any hint of Solid State or push pull tube or unresolved
pentode tube implementations results in bleeding ears...her tolerance is zero...
Deborah LOVES THIS AMP...SHE IS TRULY IN LOVE WITH IT!!!
The bass on my double B200 Open Baffles is startling powerful...full, rich, musical~
The Signature 30 latches onto the rhythm of any music and allows it to gather
incredible momentum...the music is...THROBBING...PULSATING...in a thoroughly
NATURAL and TEXTURALLY RICH presentation~
The remote control (an option) works flawlessly!
I forgot to mention that the quiet of the Signature 30...which runs on
Battery Power...is simply uncanny~
A strange quiet pervades the musical space...as if it had just rained...and the rain has
stopped and the wind has finally disappeared...everything outside is sparkling...
and because everyone ran for shelter the streets are empty~
You open the window...and the clean air enters...but there is this quiet...
this uncanny quiet that makes you linger by the window looking out into
the lovely light that is gathering now~
That quiet suspends the music as if the players were transfixed by what they
were playing...as if they were playing out of time...dream time~
The Signature 30 has its own built-in passive volume control (DACT)...
a preamplifier is not necessary...nothing to add but the music!!!!
Listening today to stringed instruments and piano...one clearly hears the resin
sliding along the surface of the bow and resonating violin or cello strings...
the "attack" of the piano as the keys are struck...or the use of the pedal to elongate
the vibrations of the struck steel strings inside the piano's wood cabinet~
"You can tell a great deal about an amp by the way the piano sounds"...Deb remarked
today..."sometimes it sounds false...artificial...dimenished...this sounds totally real
to me...like a real piano..."
Voices sound warm and intimate with terrific texture and detail~
I want to point out that Deb loves the way the amp looks...she is a highly regarded
graphic designer with an enviable client list...her word: "elegant"~
One more thing I would like to share with everybody...and this is the least
believable thing I have ever said about any audio product: I don't know why yet...
but every performance I am hearing sounds perfect to me...I am not exaggerating...
it is as if the performers came together during one of those magical confluences
of creative synergy...as if they were on fire with tremendous energy perfectly
matched by a precision of skill that is strangely uncanny...surreal sounding~
Once music lovers and reviewers discover this amp, Vinnie's life is going be a
living hell meeting the demand for it...this is a world-class amplifier that sets a
totally new standard of performance...high priced tube or solid state or digital
amp designers will shake in their shoes when they hear this~
The revolution in audio continues...and Vinnie Rossi is leading that revolution~
Congratulations, Vinnie...the Signature 30 is a masterpiece!!!!
Warm Regards ~Richard~
