I’m brand rabid for Acurus gear, having owned an RL11 Line Stage Preamp, A150 Amp and an ACD11 CD player since the late 90’s. My gear has never been in the shoppe and in 23 years, I’ve only had to replace two fuses, left channel, no big.
Before I settled on Acurus, I tried every 90s ENTRY LEVEL system out there, including BRYSTON (Too soft sounding) ADCOM (Too course sounding without SLAM), ROTEL (Loved their RB980BX, absolutely hated the matching RC980 Full function Pre), NAD, PARASOUND, B&K, you name it. Nothing can touch my Acurus on Kick Drum 🥁 impact or Bass S-L-A-M or Sound stage per dollar 💵 spent.
Is Acurus PERFECT? No. They are so BRIGHT sounding you can read a tech manual, 8pt font in pitch darkness with them playing. So slap 👋 a Tube Phono Stage to play records and a DAC to smooth out the Digital. Finally, NEVER run the RL11 with both Tape outputs (Record & Listen) to the same number (eg Tape 1 R&L) because you’ll destroy the Preamp!!!
If cost is no object, a KRELL or LEVENSON will beat my Gear—-but nothing under $2K each will touch it. My Neolithic ACD11 trounced a new Emotiva CD player and is unbeatable with my SMSL 6th Anno DAC with LPS @ 24/192hrz. The maximum PCM you can extract off of a digital output. Google Acurus and read the reviews...
Before I settled on Acurus, I tried every 90s ENTRY LEVEL system out there, including BRYSTON (Too soft sounding) ADCOM (Too course sounding without SLAM), ROTEL (Loved their RB980BX, absolutely hated the matching RC980 Full function Pre), NAD, PARASOUND, B&K, you name it. Nothing can touch my Acurus on Kick Drum 🥁 impact or Bass S-L-A-M or Sound stage per dollar 💵 spent.
Is Acurus PERFECT? No. They are so BRIGHT sounding you can read a tech manual, 8pt font in pitch darkness with them playing. So slap 👋 a Tube Phono Stage to play records and a DAC to smooth out the Digital. Finally, NEVER run the RL11 with both Tape outputs (Record & Listen) to the same number (eg Tape 1 R&L) because you’ll destroy the Preamp!!!
If cost is no object, a KRELL or LEVENSON will beat my Gear—-but nothing under $2K each will touch it. My Neolithic ACD11 trounced a new Emotiva CD player and is unbeatable with my SMSL 6th Anno DAC with LPS @ 24/192hrz. The maximum PCM you can extract off of a digital output. Google Acurus and read the reviews...