It is more powerful (hence impressive) than the others therefore it is a color? A characteristic perhaps but a color?
Okay so you find them jumpy maybe? So the others are more mellow. Okay, I'm cool with that. Mellow is good. I like mellow when the music is mellow. The funny thing with having meters on your amps is the numbers are right in front of you. I carry Townshend tables too. The Rock rides like a Range Rover. I've got an AC-3 too, one of the sweetest tables from the upper midrange up. Fantastic decay trails, simply lovely.
My point? I can make the AF1 do what my other tables do. What they will ot do is get the usable dynamic range of the TD. The meters show additional wattage use of two to three watts in noise. Noise that masks nuances. So the question is, is the nuance hyped or is it the others that are seemingly more organic because they are basically being noise shaped by warpage modulation, groove noise and groove echo?
Hey, end results are what matter. Again if that's the way one wants to get to a natural sound, go for it. It's just my personal choice to get there in ways where I need not sacrifice dynamic potential.