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I remember the shock of listening to ASR with YG speakers in Munich around 2010 or 2012. The impact was likely amplified because I heard the ASR setup right after the full MBL system. After experiencing excellent sound in the MBL room, listening to the ASR + YG setup felt like trying to eat plastic fruit made for display. It was a poor choice of room for ASR, being directly across from the MBL room.

I didn’t judge ASR’s sound based on its design. At first, I wasn’t even aware that ASR had a separate power supply. After listening to it, I found it lean, slow, and uninvolving—and this impression has remained consistent across various ASR amps I listened that paired with different speakers over the years. For me it has always sounded as I described. Using discrete op-amps slightly improves the sound. The technical details I mentioned are simply an explanation of why it sounds that way.
well, that explains everything. that vintage of YG plus the ASR may not have been copacetic. I heard the full MBL rig at Axpona in Atlanta many moons ago, and I thought it sounded airy and dimension while also being thin and dry sounding lacking pulp so to each his own….
 
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well, that explains everything. that vintage of YG plus the ASR may not been copacetic. I heard the full MBL rig at Axpona in Atlanta many moons ago, and I thought it sounded airy and dimension while also being thin and dry sounding lacking pulp so to each his own….
I agree and I don't think MBL rooms sound best at their full potential at the shows for the last couple of years. But they were sounding great back then, 10-15 years ago. Maybe it's because of quitting the use of CD transports or maybe setting and tuning, I don't know.
 

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