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Has anyone heard the new North American products preamp and amp?

The new versions are called X-10s and the amp is on its third version or Mark III. This truly provides holograph imagine unlike anything I've heard before. On symphonic orchestras, one can hear the first violins. I have never heard an amp sound this precise.

In reality, I doubt if any amplifier can rival it. I certainly have never heard any that do so. Every album is so involving.

The preamp has yet to get a remote but is nevertheless, quite striking.
tbg
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servant
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I have the amp and pre-amp in my system but have yet to hear them.  All I can hear is musicians in my room playing beautiful music.  This is the most musically.  Revealing equipment I have experienced in  my 50 plus years of critical listening and the new pieces are not even fully broke in. 
tbg OP
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I have and you are in for a treat after about six weeks of settling in by the amp. I don't know if it is just the curing of the potting compound, the forming of capacitors, or even my getting accustomed to the sound, but at one point about three week with it here and not on other than when I wanted to listen, there was a major jump where the entire soundstage from extreme left to extreme right was well defined. The sound was very involving with ambience decay. I had never before heard this with a symphonic orchestra nor with a big band. One would have to have bought the very best seat in a very good hall to hear what I was hearing on virtually all such recordings.

This amp is a clear breakthrough.

timlub
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After reading this, went online to find it, took me awhile so I thought I'd post the link... After reading, a lot makes sense,  a ton of digital correcting done to the signal on the front end.

http://h-cat.com/

I hope this helps,

Tim

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