DeVore speakers are described as colorful but not colored. I would agree with that statement.
Component-wise, I do it with the DAC and pre-amp.
How do you add color?
For those of you who are adherents of straight wire, ruler flat frequency response, accurate and neutral sound, artists’ true intentions, etc. ... please stop reading now. You’ve been warned. If you continue to read, you might get heartburn and since I’m a nice guy, I don’t want to do that to you.
Now, for those who are not opposed to adding a bit of color and flavor to tune/tweak the sound to their liking, what is your preferred method of madness? Speakers, amps, preamps, DACs, cables? I know many who like the combination of solid state amps with tube preamps. Lately, a lot of upmarket DACs are using tubes (Lampizator) or R2R to add a sort of tube-like flavoring. Let’s say you’re happy with your solid state amp but want to add a bit of tube magic to the chain, would you get there by way of tube preamps or tube DACs? Or both -- which might be too much of a good thing perhaps?
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To clarify my post, I understand what you mean about adding color. But what I am suggesting is components which allow the color to pass through. To be dramatic, my Delta Sigma DAC is like this blinding bright white light putting a laser beam through the music. Dropping in my NOS DAC, the colors in the music suddenly appear. Neither is wrong, just depends on taste and the kind of music being played. The most natural way to ADD color, in my very limited experience, is a tube amp. Preamps and source components add a more color but usually some type of haze obscuring music as well. As roxy54 said, softer sounding speakers which place higher emphasis on tone, not detail, can also be perceived as more colorful.
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@mahler123
Nothing snarky about asking something. I am sure many people will take exception with my opinion but carrying on. . . Technically, a 10" driver makes a lousy midrange. It has bad dispersion and moves too slow. So it does more of the musical generalities than extraction minute details = colorful. Paper drivers have more of a colorful presentation than metal as do tubes but that doesn’t necessary mean they are colored any more than one type of violin sounds different from another. Coloration would be some type of distortion, resonance, etc. It’s true and is called synesthesia.
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