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Impressive...wait for 45 seconds into the video...
Yes, it looks it. Personally, my sense is there are few amps in the world that enter that rarified world of all-out purity of sound, dynamics, range, power. From everything I have read and heard...these are one of that rarified few.
There wasn’t a direct replacement as such, just fancied a change from monoblocks and headamp to an integrated. Tidy up the box count as I was running out of space on my rack.
Ah...and NOW the question: How does the Riviera compare to the big Bernings or the Woo 33? Both of those are extremely well regarded. Did the Riviera replace them both in terms of quality of sound as well?
I have never heard the Ongaku, only read about it over the years...in fact when Alan Sircom reviewed the Robert Koda K15EX preamp in June, he said “I’ve not heard anything that gets this close to the real deal since I spent some time with the Audio Note Ongaku back in 1991”). Given your statement, I take that as serious praise from Alan Sircom!
Very, very good to know...actually while I may not be surprised about the Bernings, I am very intrigued to hear about the Woo. As you can see below, I went for an EAR Yoshino HP4 (which I found 2nd hand in Singapore) and had brought fully back to par by EAR here. I elected to go for something 'great at a great price' rather than go for 'the best' after inordinate auditions. That said, did a LOT of reading about Woo, and surely that was in the pantheon of headphone amps.
Yes but you still have them purple fuses to try and some tube rolling! And we all know what a good fuse can do.
