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Wow, this thread is really making me consider an amp. Is the sale over? Just saw the FB info. Emailed support. Sorry for hijacking the thread!
Recently there was a review in the online Blog 'Audio Pursuit' giving accolades to the desktop Maraschino. The review included a lot of superlatives but the reviewer did make the observation that the Maraschinos seemed a little bass shy when compared to a vintage Adcom GFA 545ii. I actually think that it's that the Maraschino bass definition is so good that the Adcom seems a little boomy by comparison....and usually we perceive boomy bass as more bass.I've noticed a similar situation when comparing the 2Cherry with the Halo A23...the difference in perceived bass output is very slight. On first blush, the Halo seems to produce a little bit 'more bass' but on closer listening, the 2Cherry has much more detailed bass; you can clearly hear individual bass notes, you can hear the kick drum membrane being struck. Again, more detail, less boom..given a choice, I'll take the detail.
Great point, and you are CORRECT !! All Cherry amps developed after 2013 are DC coupled without use of a servo. How is this done? By making a naturally low DC offset end-to-end Amplifier. There are no capacitors in the signal path, and thus, no phase shift in the bass. The lack of phase shift can improve realism in the bass. In the time domain, phase shift from a high pass filter (a.k.a. “DC blocker” or “AC coupling”) skews timing of the bass with respect to the rest of the spectrum. Some say this timing skew is insignificant, but this is an invalid generalization. Most audio systems have multiple AC coupling stages. They are effectively cascaded, and the phase shift they create is cumulative. It is also irreversible Consider a system with an AC coupled DAC, an AC coupled preamp (in and out), and an AC coupled power amplifier. That’s easily four or more cascaded high pass filters, with the phase shifts from all of them added up!
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That interview is referred to as Part 1 (at the end) and is from March 2017... was the rest of the interview ever published? Thanks for sharing the link, it's a very interesting article.
how much are these? Are they 400 watts into 8 0hm? Just curious.
30 Hour UpdateI suspect that most audiophiles would say that one of their goals is to have their system sound like live music. I’ve always found the difference hard to describe in a way that I could say, “well, if I just fix A, B, and C then problem solved”.After a while, I changed my approach. I began to look instead at improving aspects of the sound that didn’t seem quite right. Make a tweak to get rid of some harshness. Make another tweak to firm up the low end. Then make another tweak to improve the soundstage. And hopefully, each tweak did not result in one step forward and another step back in a different area.I had my system pretty much at a level where it didn’t seem like there was much left to fix. It didn’t exactly replicate live music but it really sounded good…great tone, massive and deep soundstage and just fun to listen to.I had no reason to switch things up but I decided to buy the 2Cherry for the heck of it. As I said, I liked the interview with Tommy and I liked what reviewers and forum posters had to say. Since I had nothing I was trying to fix, I had no real expectations.Much to my surprise, the 2Cherry significantly improved overall clarity and as a result the music sounds more alive, more realistic and more tonally correct. It doesn’t bump up the top end and it doesn’t add midrange presence, both of which result in a “false” sense of clarity. Instead, what the 2Cherry seems to do is remove a level of haze/fog that I never realized was there.In 2014 Tone Audio said this about putting the Cherry Mono Blocks into their system, “It’s like cleaning a dirty windshield to get a better view of the road”. This is a spot on description: my system retained all of the great sound characteristics it had previously but the added clarity has moved the overall sound/presentation closer to live music that I realistically thought I could achieve. Thank You Tommy!
