M900U vs the world

Ya I think his initial statement was just exaggeration after initially hearing the amp and being so impressed with it. But then later on he eventually sold it lol.

I find he kinda did that too with the other amps hes looked at. Like with the X250.8 he initially went insane about how its such an incredible amp. Then when I just asked him about m900u vs X350.8 his response would make you think the 350.8 is s---. LOL.

I've never seen an amp hold its value both new and on the used market like the m900u (except for the 5k drop when they had distributor changed). Its really impressive.

RIAA Im talking about used price even 4-5 years ago compared to now is round 9k+. Dealer discounted price also not changing over the years.

trudat thanks for your great post. I guess sometimes I just read certain reviews and there is hyperbole and extremes of language and they paint things with huge bold stark contrast when in reality either option is likely to lead to fantastic results.

@winnardt Saying something sounds great is fine.. but its not very meaningful unless you compare it to something. Sounds great compared to what? Beats by dre sounds good compared to a $1.00 amazon IEM... but compared to an HD650 it sounds very poor. 

And yes of course when in audio is there a direction proportional increase in sound quality compared to what you spend? As you spend more and more diminishing returns kicks in.  This just the unfortunate nature of audio which I agree can be a very expensive hobby.  Maybe the M900u is only 2-3x better than an emotiva... if that even means anything. But then it comes down to how much that improvement means to you? For some people they are not willing to spend $500 on something that is twice a s good. Others are ok wtih $100,000 for something that is 5% better.

White camaross at one point was saying he would be willing to sell everything he has including XS300 and just enjoy M900U.

The c900u seems to be an incredible preamp. Id like to seenit compared to an xp22 or 32.

@laaudionut Thanks for the thoughts. Have you considered a more modern mcintosh tube preamp?

Also how you liking the coda 16? Looks to be a giant killer. I'd love to see Coda 16 vs M900U !

Kairo what did the rest of his system look like? Maybe he likes the synergy? What did you find lacking ? Low end? Dynamics? Too polite?

@winnardt, Whether the price increase for the performance gain is worth it is obviously going to depend on the individual. But I don't think those people shopping for $15-20k luxman, pass, mack etc amps are that worried about super high value for the money.  If they were they probably would be shopping for much cheaper amps that are still good performers.

What do you guys think of SET or PP tube amps vs m900u? Any comparisons ?

Sorry but unless you guys are mods I will continue to have dialogue on audiogon.

So ya any comparisons to tube amps would be interesting.

@naseltzer well said ! Exactly. I think a lot of people are chasing a more 'tubey' sound but without having to worry about tube life or tube nervosa and I wondered if luxman had some of those qualities. I know its unlikely any SS amp will truly sound like a truly tubey amp but maybe it can push far enough into that domain to satisfy ?