densen

steven,

yeah i appreciate a £900 amp will trash a £400 cd player and show all its warts etc. but i will definitely be upgrading the cd player in the future too and although i belive in the old saying "trash in, trash out", i also think a £1000 cd player into a £275 amp is even more of a mismatch than using the densen with my rotel for a while. Will the densen really make the rotel sound bad? or is it just that the densen wont be performing to its full abilities?

Thanks everyone for your input and experience

Chris

 

When my Densen DM10's at home its fronted by a Rotel RCD1070 - not a problem.

 

Chris,

When I was running my Rotel RCD 991 (an 800 quid player) with my B100 it sounded ok.

As soon as I added a B300 the amps revealed all that was wrong with the Rotel and it began to shout at me.

 

This is not usually the case. I used my Alpha 9 CD into an 8R amp for three years and it sounded great.

Having said that, my current amp cost three times what the Alpha 9 CD cost, and it still sounds great.

 

sorry,
had to roll the posts in the hi-fi section over to 20,000
cheers


julian

 

Anorak

:lol:

 

where's my weak lemon drink....
oh look the numbers palindromic now....

cheers


julian

 

no its not

 

it should have been. damn my anorak must be broken.
cheers

julian

 

well i have just purchased a beat 100 from signals in ipswich, ive bought it blind as i have no way of getting there to demo, but it was an exdemo model selling for £500 so i didnt want to miss out on the oppurtunity. hopefully ill be able to sell it fo the same if its not to my tastes - but i think it will be

Its gonna arrive on tues so ill let you all know how i get on with it soon

Chris

 

I like mine very much indeed (I'll give WM test system, it's mine all MINE.

Here it runs Linn Kabers, driven by Teac VRDS T-1 and Wadia 15 cd/dac. It has an involving factor missing from most amps. I run all our own cables, but to be honest, it has taken a lot trying with different cables to make it sound too "bright". It's possible to do, but you'd be unlucky if your cables push it too much this way.

The reason, btw, that it's cable sensitive more than most, is because it has a passive preamp section (unless you're running the phono stage in it, then of course that particular input is active). Cabling does make a considerable difference quality wise, but as I said, it's very unlikely to sound horrible with virtually anything.

I rate it as the perfect amp for FE'ers, who also like music, and don't like the (what WM terms jokingly) "Non-invasive ear wax removal" of one of the other prominent FE leaning amp manufacturers.

Good luck with it.

Cheers

 

What Timpy won't admit to this, but he bought it (the beat) on my recommendation (Grundingly I might add ), however has since come to appriceate it's good qualities, I run a B300 power amp, in my bedroom system, good it is too and doesn't have that certain 'whince' quality that come au natural' with other FE gear
Nice build too, great little amp Wm

 

Now I know why my DIN/RCA Omiga i/c sounds so "right" with my Densen amps.

BTW, the B200 pre is an active preamp kicking out 6 watts aside. It is still very fussy about interconnects though.

The B200/B300XS is on the warm side though, which may explain how easy it was for me to notice that the first pair of Omiga DIN/RCAs I received was a touch rolled off at the top end.

Timpy, try a B300 biamping with your B100. It is a big upgrade (you could borrow Tone's ). You'll have to switch the B300 over from active to passive pre mode and the two switches (L+R) are inside the casing.

 

well it arrived this morning and what can i say apart from i love it.

im not even gonna try and attempt to put into words how it improves over my old amp as im no good at descibing the sound in words. The only thing i can say is that the music is so much more involving with the densen and i find myself tapping my feet along to the tune and listening to whole albums instead of tracks (a cliched saying i know, but its only way i can describe it).

From cold though i wasnt all that impressed, it was a bit harsh and shouty, but after 2 hours things had started to settle and it was sounding much warmer. After that i had to go to work and when i returned the sound had smoothed out a bit more, but not as much as it did in the first couple of hours.

I am a very happy man

Chris

 

Chris give it a day, and IT'll be fine mate

 

Ahh yes, they do like to be warmed up properly.

Glad you like it.

Cheers

 

Definitely. In fact I think Densen suggest that you actually leave the thing on permanently - presumably why they put the on/off switch at the back.