Perhaps also, because I soldered in some cerafine caps and a Noble-pot, as recommended from AN as a tweak. I recently bought some silver cables (unfortunately could not afford AN-cables), and wow, the Amp is still not at its limits. My AN-J speakers of same age are surely a perfect match, but also my former focal-aria 5 speakers sounded fine driven only from the kit's 2x8 Watt. Sources with limited clarity in midrange can be a problem. Of course, like any good amp, the Kit One likes good speakers, cables and sources. I tried other amps (transistor and also a Chinese 211-SET) some times, but always returned to the Kit One, due to its sense for a complete and seamless presentation, even if the more powerful amps made some short-term-impression here and there. So, even older rock-records with limited dynamics are a pleasure to listen to, you just accept and enjoy the recording as it is. In case of "average" recordings, you will certainly notify that, but the Kit One does its best not to point out weaknesses, it still allows a coherent musical event. Modern recordings come with all their 3D-effects, in micro or macro scale, you can easily get the idea of the musicians and sound engineers. This amp does not want to impress with bombing bass or fizzy treble, except the music demands it. There is an exceptionally clear midrange, airy and with tonal beauty. acoustic pieces with voices and/or low instrumentation are transferred with a big piece of emotion. It seems the Kit 1 supports the strengths of the music played by creating just the right and suitable atmosphere. The sound quality of this amp can be described best with "involving". Nowadays, AN-Kits are supported from USA, and looking at their web side, the overall appearance improved. My amp still has the "military green" chassis, not the brightest one ever seen, but I like it. Part quality, instructions and so on was simply a pleasure to work with, so no problem for anyone with some handcraft skills. The price still was reasonable for a kit, but with regards of sound quality, I never was disappointed. In these days, the AN-products really won every comparison test we made with different equipment, so I was hoping to get this sonic quality as DIY-bargain. I had to get into the 300b-single ended hype, wanted to save some money, and appreciated the AN-concept to offer parts and kits beside their growing range of finished products of various levels. It was about 1996, when I built this amp, the first version, coming from AN-UK, which was just establishing as "hard-line" tube audio company. George has also been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music by Boston’s esteemed Berklee College of Music.Ĭurrently, he is an Associate Professor of Sound Recording at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and a Visiting Lecturer at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston and Valencia, Spain as well as the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN.I own a Kit One for about 15 years, and I think it deserves a view words. George serves as the Chief Technical Officer of META (the Music Engineering Technical Alliance), a strategic union of music producers and engineers dedicated to the highest standards of audio and delivery of music. He is also a member of the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress and an advisor to the Committee for Library Information Resources. In 2013, he was awarded a patent #8,510,361 in the US (as well as other countries) for a variable exponent averaging detector and dynamic range controller. Regularly published in professional journals and trade magazines world wide, George Massenburg received the Gold Medal from the Audio Engineering Society in 2008. In 1982, he founded George Massenburg Labs, an audio electronics company that has released an extensive range of innovative recording technologies, all based on his original designs. In addition to numerous Mix Magazine TEC Awards, in 1988 he also won the Academy of Country Music Record of the Year Award for his production on the album “Trio” featuring Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.įurther, George has designed, built and managed several recording studios as well as contributed to the acoustical and architectural design of many other studios, including George Lucas’ Skywalker Sound. George’s work has gained him world wide recognition and four Grammy Awards, including the Grammy for Technical Achievement in 1998, at the time making him one of only seventeen individuals to ever receive this honor. His work includes milestone albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Linda Ronstadt, Natasha Bedingfield, Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, the Dixie Chicks and many, many more. Over the past four decades, George Massenburg has been involved in over 400 records.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |