The Fastest most musical amp


Since I got the upgrade bug and the only cure is to change my preamp and amp I am looking for some advice of our great Audiophile community to help me find the amplifier and preamp combo that suits me best. My priority are the folowing: I want to find the FASTEST and MOST MUSICAL amp and preamp ( It can be tube preamp ( tough I think all tube preamp are slow) or solid state preamp but only solid state amp.) I know that spectral is known to be one of the fastest but I don`t like the idea of being forced to use the Networked MIT cable (which slow up the sound much)
dismalonyx

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The speed with which dynamic changes in music are reproduced relative to one another... i.e. the term includes the notion of relativity. In this sense, it's what Mikelavigne & Detlof and most others I believe, refer to.
Other amps that I've heard corresponding to this, are big Symphonic Lines. As Mike aptly put it, subjectively the music seems to be "slower" because of the plethora of detail -- easily perceptpible if you forget about the music & just listen to sounds (not very easy!). However, here too, slew rates are allegedly very high across the bandwidth (wide-band amps).

A small note: this seems a bit like an academic discussion as we still don't know what Dismalonyx's goal is, what speakers are in play. Or maybe it's intended as an open discussion? Cheers