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The Passion of the Magic of the Exception

I don’t really know what to say about this, so I’ll just quote the press release:

The role of an High End amplifier is to reproduce the music, all the music.

Amateur of beautiful often unique parts, GoldAmp is the Only One. An exceptional musical know-how. Celebrate interpreter who knows how to be forgot. A magnificent story which can be told by moments of complicity in the emotion. Reunion with classicals works henceforth dear to our hearts.

GoldAmp is not a part of these creations inspired by the decorative arts and associating the lacquer, the varnish, the talent of a…

 

Music in the Round #49

Things move fast in multichannel. No, I'm not referring to the speed of sound effects as they whip around a room—let's leave that for the home-theater mags. I'm talking about audio technology. Since I began writing this column in June 2003, we've seen serious technological changes almost annually, some driven by real needs, some imposed by marketing considerations. To me, the rate of change seems strikingly rapid, compared to that of the products I review for the main portion of Stereophile, based, as they are, in the two-channel world.

Practical stereo for the home began in the late…

 

Music in the Round #49 Page 2

But that's more a view of the trees than of the forest. All of the DHC-80.2's basic and advanced functions have been improved over the DTC-9.8 originals, from video processing using the HQV-Reon-VX processor, to audio processing with the latest versions of Audyssey MultEQ XT32, Dynamic EQ, and Dynamic Volume. Is anything missing? Not that I can tell.

To assess the DHC-80.2's basic audio quality, I did my initial auditions via its multichannel analog inputs and, for digital sources, prior to EQ with Audyssey. Regular readers of this column may recall that the DTC-9.8's sound through its…

 

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